Functional repertoire of antibiotic resistance genes in antibiotic manufacturing effluents and receiving freshwater sediments

JJ González-Plaza, A Šimatović, M Milaković… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Environments polluted by direct discharges of effluents from antibiotic manufacturing are
important reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which could potentially be …

Metagenomic profiling of antibiotic resistance genes and their associations with bacterial community during multiple disinfection regimes in a full-scale drinking water …

S Jia, K Bian, P Shi, L Ye, CH Liu - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
For comprehensive insights into the effects of multiple disinfection regimes on antibiotic
resistome in drinking water, this study utilized metagenomic approaches to reveal the …

Catalogue of antibiotic resistome and host-tracking in drinking water deciphered by a large scale survey

L Ma, B Li, XT Jiang, YL Wang, Y Xia, AD Li, T Zhang - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Excesses of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which are regarded as
emerging environmental pollutants, have been observed in various environments. The …

Metagenomic insights into dissemination of antibiotic resistance across bacterial genera in wastewater treatment

X Cheng, J Xu, G Smith, Y Zhang - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impacts of conventional wastewater treatment
processes including secondary treatment and chlorination on the removal of antibiotic …

Wastewater treatment plant effluents exert different impacts on antibiotic resistome in water and sediment of the receiving river: metagenomic analysis and risk …

Y Wu, S Li, K Yu, J Hu, Q Chen, W Sun - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are considered as hotspots for the spread of
antibiotic resistome into the environment. However, the differential contributions of WWTPs …

Antibiotic resistomes in drinking water sources across a large geographical scale: Multiple drivers and co-occurrence with opportunistic bacterial pathogens

Z Han, Y Zhang, W An, J Lu, J Hu, M Yang - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) can survive the water treatment process. However, the
prevalence patterns, key drivers, and relationships with opportunistic pathogens of the …

Exploring the antibiotic resistome in activated sludge and anaerobic digestion sludge in an urban wastewater treatment plant via metagenomic analysis

K Yoo, H Yoo, J Lee, EJ Choi, J Park - Journal of Microbiology, 2020 - Springer
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are emerging contaminants that pose a potential threat
to human health worldwide. Urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are a main source …

Characterization of metagenomes in urban aquatic compartments reveals high prevalence of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance genes in wastewaters

C Ng, M Tay, B Tan, TH Le, L Haller, H Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating problem and a threat to
public health. Comparative metagenomics was used to investigate the occurrence of …

Tracking antibiotic resistome during wastewater treatment using high throughput quantitative PCR

XL An, JQ Su, B Li, WY Ouyang, Y Zhao, QL Chen… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) contain diverse antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs),
and thus are considered as a major pathway for the dissemination of these genes into the …

Investigation of antibiotic resistome in hospital wastewater during the COVID-19 pandemic: is the initial phase of the pandemic contributing to antimicrobial resistance …

C Wang, D Mantilla-Calderon, Y Xiong… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, there has been much speculation about how COVID-
19 and antimicrobial resistance may be interconnected. In this study, untreated wastewater …