Sewage treatment effluents in Delhi: A key contributor of β-lactam resistant bacteria and genes to the environment

M Lamba, SZ Ahammad - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance (AR) in developing countries is posing a greater
health risk and increasing the global disease burden. Lack of access to safe drinking water …

Sewage mediated transfer of antibiotic resistance to River Yamuna in Delhi, India

M Lamba, TR Sreekrishnan, SZ Ahammad - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increase in antibiotic resistance (AR) in environment is a global health concern as the
emergence of AR is limiting the treatment options. Inappropriate and indiscriminate uses of …

Carbapenem resistance exposures via wastewaters across New Delhi

M Lamba, S Gupta, R Shukla, DW Graham… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global concern, especially in India where the
burden of infectious diseases is high and health care spending is low. Here we quantified …

Hospital wastewater releases of carbapenem-resistance pathogens and genes in urban India

M Lamba, DW Graham… - Environmental science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Increasing antibiotic resistant hospital-acquired infections and limited new antibiotic
discovery are jeopardizing human health at global scales, although how hospitals …

Investigating antimicrobial resistance determinants and micropollutants in urban sewage treatment plants of India: Occurrence, removal and ecotoxicological risk

R Shukla, DK Prasad, SZ Ahammad - Journal of Environmental Chemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Environmental contamination caused by emerging pollutants (EPs) and their associated
ecological risk have received limited attention in India. Thus, this study aims to address this …

Antibiotic resistance in wastewater: Indian scenario

A Kapley, MS Sheeraz, S Kukade, A Ansari… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The surge of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria (ARB) in the environment is poised to be
the next health threat. World Health Organisation's (WHO's) Global Antimicrobial …

Antibiotic resistance determinants among carbapenemase producing bacteria isolated from wastewaters of Kathmandu, Nepal

KC Sudeep, S Khanal, TP Joshi, D Khadka… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The emergence of carbapenem resistant bacteria (CRB) possesses a remarkable threat to
the health of humans. CRB and carbapenem resistance genes (CRGs) have frequently been …

Resistance to critically important antibiotics in hospital wastewater from the largest Croatian city

A Puljko, SD Rozman, I Barišić, A Maravić… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
The emergence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-and especially carbapenemases
in Enterobacterales has led to limited therapeutic options. Therefore, it is critical to fully …

Impact of wastewater from different sources on the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli in sewage treatment plants in South India

M Akiba, H Senba, H Otagiri, VP Prabhasankar… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The sewage treatment plant (STP) is one of the most important interfaces between the
human population and the aquatic environment, leading to contamination of the latter by …

Treatment enhances the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in the wastewater of Sri Lanka, and India

M Kumar, B Ram, H Sewwandi, R Honda… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are being debated for being the hot spots for the
development of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microbial communities. We observed the …