Antibiotics in soil and water in China–a systematic review and source analysis

J Lyu, L Yang, L Zhang, B Ye, L Wang - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
With the high production and consumption of antibiotics in recent years due to increasing
economic development and improving population health, China is facing serious antibiotic …

Improving the treatment of waste activated sludge using calcium peroxide

Q Xu, QS Huang, W Wei, J Sun, X Dai, BJ Ni - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The treatment and disposal of waste activated sludge (WAS) has become one of the major
challenges for the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) due to large output, high treatment …

Antibiotic resistance: moving from individual health norms to social norms in one health and global health

S Hernando-Amado, TM Coque, F Baquero… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance is a problem for human health, and consequently, its study had been
traditionally focused toward its impact for the success of treating human infections in …

Using sewage for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

FM Aarestrup, MEJ Woolhouse - Science, 2020 - science.org
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a cross-cutting and increasing threat to global health (1–3),
is a complex problem with multiple and interconnected drivers. Reliable surveillance data …

Determining hosts of antibiotic resistance genes: a review of methodological advances

EW Rice, P Wang, AL Smith… - Environmental Science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Advancing environmental research on antibiotic resistance will require developing better
databases of not only the occurrences of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental fate of Bacteroidetes, with particular emphasis on Bacteroides fragilis group bacteria and their specific antibiotic resistance genes, in activated …

S Niestępski, M Harnisz, S Ciesielski… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the activated sludge process on the
abundance of anaerobic bacteria of the phylum Bacteroidetes, with special emphasis on …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization drives riverine bacterial antibiotic resistome more than taxonomic community at watershed scale

F Peng, Y Guo, A Isabwe, H Chen, Y Wang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the occurrence and distribution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in various
aquatic ecosystems are well explored, understanding of the ecological processes and …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization and source identification of antibiotic resistance genes in the sediments of an interconnected river-lake system

H Chen, Y Li, W Sun, L Song, R Zuo, Y Teng - Environment International, 2020 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance has been a global public health concern. The river-lake systems are
one of the tightly connected terrestrial ecosystems and, appear to be reservoirs of antibiotic …

[HTML][HTML] Metagenomic insights into the profile of antibiotic resistomes in a large drinking water reservoir

C Dang, Y Xia, M Zheng, T Liu, W Liu, Q Chen… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Reservoirs play a vital role in the control and management of surface water resources.
However, the long water residence time in the reservoir potentially increases the storage …

Elimination of antibiotic resistance genes and human pathogenic bacteria by earthworms during vermicomposting of dewatered sludge by metagenomic analysis

K Huang, H Xia, Y Zhang, J Li, G Cui, F Li, W Bai… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study used a metagenomic approach to investigate the effects of earthworms on ARGs
and HPB during the vermicomposting of dewatered sludge. Results showed that 139 types …