Molecular profiling of multidrug-resistant river water isolates: insights into resistance mechanism and potential inhibitors

PP Yewale, KB Lokhande, A Sridhar… - … Science and Pollution …, 2020 - Springer
Polluted waters are an important reservoir for antibiotic resistance genes and multidrug-
resistant bacteria. This report describes the microbial community, antibiotic resistance …

Prevalence and diversity of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae from marine beach waters

A Maravić, M Skočibušić, S Cvjetan, I Šamanić… - Marine pollution …, 2015 - Elsevier
A total of 1351 Enterobacteriaceae isolates from 144 seawater samples were collected over
a four-year period from three public beaches in the eastern Adriatic Sea in Croatia …

The prevalence and characterization of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-and carbapenemase-producing bacteria from hospital sewage, treated effluents and …

L Zhang, X Ma, L Luo, N Hu, J Duan, Z Tang… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Hospital sewage plays a key role in the dissemination of antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs)
by serving as an environmental antimicrobial resistance reservoir. In this study, we aimed to …

The effect of the effluent from a small-scale conventional wastewater treatment plant treating municipal wastewater on the composition and abundance of the microbial …

K Tiirik, H Nõlvak, M Truu, A Peeb, M Kõiv-Vainik… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
The effluents of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are major contributors of nutrients,
microbes—including those carrying antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)—and pathogens to …

Whole genome sequencing and characterization of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial strains isolated from a Norwegian university campus pond

MD Finton, R Meisal, D Porcellato, LT Brandal… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The presence of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria in
environmental sources has been reported worldwide and constitutes a serious risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-level insights into the operation of an on-site biological wastewater treatment unit reveal the importance of storage time

J Knisz, P Shetty, R Wirth, G Maróti, T Karches… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
On-site wastewater treatment systems are gaining popularity in areas where centralized
wastewater treatment is not available. In the current case study a domestic activated sludge …

Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria isolated from hospital wastewaters, rivers and aquaculture sources in Nigeria

OO Adelowo, S Caucci, OA Banjo, OC Nnanna… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Untreated wastewater is a risk factor for the spread of antibiotic resistance in the
environment. However, little is known about the contribution of untreated wastewater to the …

Abundances of tetracycline, sulphonamide and beta-lactam antibiotic resistance genes in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with different waste load

M Laht, A Karkman, V Voolaid, C Ritz, T Tenson… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Antibiotics and antibiotic resistant bacteria enter wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), an
environment where resistance genes can potentially spread and exchange between …

Detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and their resistance genes in wastewater, surface water, and drinking water biofilms

T Schwartz, W Kohnen, B Jansen… - FEMS microbiology …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
In view of the increasing interest in the possible role played by hospital and municipal
wastewater systems in the selection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, biofilms were …

Distribution and molecular characterization of genes encoding CTX-M and AmpC β-lactamases in Escherichia coli isolated from an Indian urban aquatic environment

P Bajaj, NS Singh, PK Kanaujia, JS Virdi - Science of the Total Environment, 2015 - Elsevier
Aquatic environments harboring antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli constitute an important
public health concern. Thus, it is important to characterize the resistance genetic elements of …