Antidepressants may be contributing to the looming public health disaster of antibiotic resistance after being found to reduce the effect of drugs to treat bacterial infections. 7NEWS
To test bacterial resistance, multiple types of antibiotics were added to the plates which were then incubated for 60 days.
“Indeed, a high concentration of sertraline induced resistance to chloramphenicol, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin.” “The antibiotic resistance appears to be antidepressant-dependent, which may be due to oxidative stress in bacteria posed by antidepressants,” Guo said. While antibiotics are known to be a “major driver” of bacterial resistance, Guo said a motivation of the study was to determine if other common medications were contributing.
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