[HTML][HTML] High prevalence of drug resistance and class 1 integrons in Escherichia coli isolated from river Yamuna, India: a serious public health risk

NS Singh, N Singhal, M Kumar, JS Virdi - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Globally, urban water bodies have emerged as an environmental reservoir of antimicrobial
resistance (AMR) genes because resistant bacteria residing here might easily disseminate …

Public health implications of plasmid-mediated quinolone and aminoglycoside resistance genes in Escherichia coli inhabiting a major anthropogenic river of India

NS Singh, N Singhal, M Kumar, JS Virdi - Epidemiology & Infection, 2022 - cambridge.org
Presence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes in Escherichia coli inhabiting
anthropogenic rivers is an important public health concern because plasmid-mediated AMR …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic environment of blaTEM-1, blaCTX-M-15, blaCMY-42 and characterization of integrons of Escherichia coli isolated from an Indian urban aquatic …

NS Singh, N Singhal, JS Virdi - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) including those expressing ESBLs and
AmpC-β-lactamases in Escherichia coli inhabiting the aquatic environments is a serious …

[HTML][HTML] The occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes in an Urban River in Nepal

O Thakali, S Tandukar, JP Brooks, SP Sherchan… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urban rivers affected by anthropogenic activities can act as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance
genes (ARGs). This study aimed to describe the occurrence of selected ARGs (bla TEM …

High Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance and Integrons in Escherichia coli Isolated from Urban River Water, India

M Kaushik, N Khare, S Kumar, P Gulati - Microbial drug resistance, 2019 - liebertpub.com
The contamination of surface waters with multidrug resistant (MDR) coliforms is a major
public health concern in developing countries. This study was aimed to evaluate the …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenetic Distribution and Prevalence of Genes Encoding Class I Integrons and CTX-M-15 Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases in Escherichia coli Isolates …

C Dureja, S Mahajan, S Raychaudhuri - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Escherichia coli is generally considered as a commensal inhabitant of gastrointestinal tract
of humans and animals. The aim of this study was to gain insight on the distribution 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Plasmid-mediated ampicillin, quinolone, and heavy metal co-resistance among esbl-producing isolates from the Yamuna River, New Delhi, India

MT Siddiqui, AH Mondal, FA Gogry, FM Husain… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Antibiotic resistance is one of the major current global health crises. Because of increasing
contamination with antimicrobials, pesticides, and heavy metals, the aquatic environment …

Carbapenemase and ESBL genes with class 1 integron among fermenting and nonfermenting bacteria isolated from water sources from India

F Singh, SD Hirpurkar, N Rawat… - Letters in applied …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The present study was aimed to detect the carbapenemase, extended‐spectrum β‐
lactamase (ESBL), and intI1 gene of class 1 integron among fermenting (n= 61) and …

Co-occurrence of multidrug resistance, β-lactamase and plasmid mediated AmpC genes in bacteria isolated from river Ganga, northern India

P Chaturvedi, D Chaurasia, A Pandey, P Gupta - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater effluents released in surface water provides suitable nutrient rich environment
for the growth and proliferation of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and genes (ARG) …