Antibiotic resistance genes from livestock waste: occurrence, dissemination, and treatment

Y He, Q Yuan, J Mathieu, L Stadler, N Senehi, R Sun… - NPJ Clean …, 2020 - nature.com
Antibiotics are widely used in animal husbandry, and various types of antibiotic resistance
genes (ARGs) are frequently detected in livestock waste around the world. Conventional …

Bacteriophage–a promising alternative measure for bacterial biofilm control

F Tian, J Li, A Nazir, Y Tong - Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Bacterial biofilms can enhance bacteria's viability by providing resistance against antibiotics
and conventional disinfectants. The existence of biofilm is a serious threat to human health …

Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants

Y Chen, Y Wang, D Paez-Espino, MF Polz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
As one of the largest biotechnological applications, activated sludge (AS) systems in
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) harbor enormous viruses, with 10-1,000-fold higher …

Understanding the complex phage-host interactions in biofilm communities

DP Pires, LDR Melo, J Azeredo - Annual Review of Virology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Bacteriophages and bacterial biofilms are widely present in natural environments, a fact that
has accelerated the evolution of phages and their bacterial hosts in these particular niches …

Phage-host interactions: the neglected part of biological wastewater treatment

X Tang, C Fan, G Zeng, L Zhong, C Li, X Ren, B Song… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
In wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), the stable operation of biological wastewater
treatment is strongly dependent on the stability of associated microbiota. Bacteriophages …

Bacteriophage Cocktails Protect Dairy Cows Against Mastitis Caused By Drug Resistant Escherichia coli Infection

M Guo, Y Gao, Y Xue, Y Liu, X Zeng… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mastitis caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli) remains a threat to dairy animals and impacts
animal welfare and causes great economic loss. Furthermore, antibiotic resistance and the …

Solar-driven efficient heterogeneous subminute water disinfection nanosystem assembled with fingerprint MoS2

T Wu, B Liu, C Liu, J Wan, A Yang, K Liu, F Shi, J Zhao… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Although heterogeneous water disinfection can avoid secondary pollution and other
shortcomings in homogeneous systems, its low disinfection efficiency seriously hinders its …

Bacteriophages in water pollution control: Advantages and limitations

M Ji, Z Liu, K Sun, Z Li, X Fan, Q Li - Frontiers of Environmental Science & …, 2021 - Springer
Wastewater is a breeding ground for many pathogens, which may pose a threat to human
health through various water transmission pathways. Therefore, a simple and effective …

Solar-powered Janus membrane for one-step conversion of sewage to clean water

Q Zhao, C Du, Y Jia, J Yuan, G Song, X Zhou… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Today, people face a global challenge of clean water shortage due to a combination of
freshwater scarcity and huge sewage discharge. To preserve human sustainability, it is …

Food safety lessons learned from the COVID‐19 pandemic

A Lacombe, I Quintela, Y Liao… - Journal of Food Safety, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic has ushered in a new era of food safety. To date, there is no
evidence to suggest that consuming food is associated with COVID‐19. Nevertheless …