[HTML][HTML] The unexpected habitat in sewer pipes for the propagation of microbial communities and their imprint on urban waters

SL McLellan, A Roguet - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Arcobacter, Acinetobacter, and Aeromonas dominate communities in
sewage.•Pipe organisms in sewage influent have abundance patterns distinct from …

Higher abundance of core antimicrobial resistant genes in effluent from wastewater treatment plants

S Raza, H Shin, HG Hur, T Unno - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) receive sewage water from a variety of sources,
including livestock farms, hospitals, industries, and households, that contain antimicrobial …

Host range of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plant influent and effluent

J Hultman, M Tamminen, K Pärnänen… - FEMS microbiology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect wastewater from various sources for a multi-
step treatment process. By mixing a large variety of bacteria and promoting their proximity …

Microplastics act as a carrier for wastewater-borne pathogenic bacteria in sewage

KP Lai, CF Tsang, L Li, RMK Yu, RYC Kong - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastic pollution, a pressing global environmental problem, has a severe impact on
both aquatic ecosystems and public health worldwide. Due to the small size of microplastics …

[HTML][HTML] Duplicated antibiotic resistance genes reveal ongoing selection and horizontal gene transfer in bacteria

R Maddamsetti, Y Yao, T Wang, J Gao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and gene duplication are often considered as separate
mechanisms driving the evolution of new functions. However, the mobile genetic elements …

Metagenomic assembly provides a deep insight into the antibiotic resistome alteration induced by drinking water chlorination and its correlations with bacterial host …

S Jia, J Wu, L Ye, F Zhao, T Li, XX Zhang - Journal of hazardous materials, 2019 - Elsevier
Chlorination can contribute to the enrichment of specific antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
in drinking water, but the underlying molecular ecological mechanisms remain unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Urban wastewater bacterial communities assemble into seasonal steady states

EL LaMartina, AA Mohaimani, RJ Newton - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Microorganisms in urban sanitary sewers exhibit community properties that
suggest sewers are a novel ecosystem. Sewer microorganisms present both an opportunity …

[HTML][HTML] A Review on the Prevalence of Arcobacter in Aquatic Environments

R Ghaju Shrestha, Y Tanaka, E Haramoto - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Arcobacter is an emerging pathogen that is associated with human and animal diseases.
Since its first introduction in 1991, 33 Arcobacter species have been identified. Studies have …

Anthropogenic impacts on antibiotic resistance genes and their hosts from pristine to urban river using metagenomic and binning approaches

Y Guan, J Jia, X Fan, K Li, Z Wang - Aquatic Toxicology, 2022 - Elsevier
Driven by anthropogenic pressure, Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) could transfer from
the environmental resistome into human commensals or even pathogens. The transport of …

Persistence of antibiotic resistance from animal agricultural effluents to surface water revealed by genome-centric metagenomics

JJ Kim, HJ Seong, TA Johnson, CJ Cha, WJ Sul… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Concerns about antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) released from wastewaters of livestock
or fish farming into the natural environment are increasing, but studies on unculturable …