Occurrence of antibiotics and bacterial resistance genes in wastewater: resistance mechanisms and antimicrobial resistance control approaches

C Mutuku, Z Gazdag, S Melegh - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
Antimicrobial pharmaceuticals are classified as emergent micropollutants of concern,
implying that even at low concentrations, long-term exposure to the environment can have …

Environmental dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes and correlation to anthropogenic contamination with antibiotics

B Berglund - Infection ecology & epidemiology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem which threatens modern healthcare globally.
Resistance has traditionally been viewed as a clinical problem, but recently non-clinical …

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in water environments

F Baquero, JL Martínez, R Cantón - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2008 - Elsevier
Antibiotic-resistant organisms enter into water environments from human and animal
sources. These bacteria are able to spread their genes into water-indigenous microbes …

Bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in water habitats: searching the links with the human microbiome

I Vaz-Moreira, OC Nunes… - FEMS microbiology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Water is one of the most important bacterial habitats on Earth. As such, water represents
also a major way of dissemination of bacteria between different environmental …

Antibiotic resistance genes in water environment

XX Zhang, T Zhang, HHP Fang - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2009 - Springer
The use of antibiotics may accelerate the development of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
and bacteria which shade health risks to humans and animals. The emerging of ARGs in the …

Prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes and their relationship with antibiotics in the Huangpu River and the drinking water sources, Shanghai, China

L Jiang, X Hu, T Xu, H Zhang, D Sheng, D Yin - Science of the Total …, 2013 - Elsevier
The prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their relationship with antibiotics
in the surface waters of the Huangpu River and the drinking water sources of Shanghai …

Integron involvement in environmental spread of antibiotic resistance

T Stalder, O Barraud, M Casellas, C Dagot… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing problem and a public health issue. In
recent decades, various genetic mechanisms involved in the spread of resistance genes …

Effect of various sludge digestion conditions on sulfonamide, macrolide, and tetracycline resistance genes and class I integrons

Y Ma, CA Wilson, JT Novak, R Riffat… - … science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Wastewater treatment processes are of growing interest as a potential means to limit the
dissemination of antibiotic resistance. This study examines the response of nine …

Antibiotic resistance in urban runoff

A Almakki, E Jumas-Bilak, H Marchandin… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Aquatic ecosystems subjected to anthropogenic pressures are places of rapid evolution of
microbial communities and likely hotspots for selection and emergence of antibiotic resistant …

Detection of 140 clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in the plasmid metagenome of wastewater treatment plant bacteria showing reduced susceptibility to …

R Szczepanowski, B Linke, I Krahn… - …, 2009 - microbiologyresearch.org
To detect plasmid-borne antibiotic-resistance genes in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)
bacteria, 192 resistance-gene-specific PCR primer pairs were designed and synthesized …