Manure can spread antibiotic resistance, but a team from Oklahoma State University thinks it has a solution.
The concern is that antibiotic resistance can spread to other bacteria and pose a threat to animal and human health.
The solution is tiny bubbles of ozone thrust into manure.
Ozone bubbles have long been used to treat sewage, but not as small as the ones now being researched and tested.
Mark Krzmarzick from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and head of the research team said the nanobubbles destroy genetic material.
Even if the bacteria are killed, pieces remain and can spread antibiotic resistance he said.
The research team aims to find out whether nanobubbles of ozone can break that genetic material apart so antibiotic resistance can’t spread.
