Status of pathogens, antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotic residues in wastewater treatment systems

CF Nnadozie, S Kumari, F Bux - Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2017 - Springer
Pathogens are becoming nearly untreatable due to the rise in gaining new resistance
against standard antibiotics. Coexistence of microbial pathogens, antibiotics and antibiotic …

The effectiveness of sewage treatment processes to remove faecal pathogens and antibiotic residues

R Hendricks, EJ Pool - … of Environmental Science and Health, Part …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Pathogens and antibiotics enter the aquatic environment via sewage effluents and may pose
a health risk to wild life and humans. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of …

Molecular Characterization and Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern of Escherichia coli Recovered from Wastewater Treatment Plants in Eastern Cape South Africa

A Igwaran, BC Iweriebor, AI Okoh - International journal of environmental …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are designed to eliminate organic matter and
pathogens but most WWTPs discharges antimicrobial resistance pathogens into aquatic …

Microbiological quality assessment of fresh produce: Potential health risk to children and urgent need for improved food safety in school feeding schemes

T Msimango, S Duvenage… - Food Science & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
About 388 million school‐going children worldwide benefit from school feeding schemes,
which make use of fresh produce to prepare meals. Fresh produce including leafy greens …

High prevalence of multidrug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from fresh vegetables sold by selected formal and informal traders in the most densely populated …

L Richter, ED Plessis, S Duvenage… - Journal of Food …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Contaminated fresh produce has increasingly been implicated in foodborne disease
outbreaks. As microbiological safety surveillance in South Africa is limited, a total of 545 …

Antibiotic resistance, pathotypes, and pathogen-host interactions in Escherichia coli from hospital wastewater in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

J Mbanga, NP Kodzai, WF Oosthuysen - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to characterise E. coli strains isolated from hospital wastewater effluent in
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, using both molecular and cytological approaches. Wastewater …

A snapshot of the influent and effluent bacterial populations in a wastewater treatment plant in the North-West province, South Africa

S Makuwa, E Green, E Fosso-Kankeu, V Moroaswi… - Applied …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wastewater treatment plants receive influent wastewater that is contaminated with bacterial
pathogens which may be released into the environment if the plant effluent is inadequately …

Assessment of the Physicochemical Qualities and Prevalence of Escherichia coli and Vibrios in the Final Effluents of Two Wastewater Treatment Plants in South …

O Osuolale, A Okoh - International journal of environmental research and …, 2015 - mdpi.com
The final effluents of two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the Eastern Cape
Province of South Africa were evaluated for their physicochemical and microbiological …

Differential survival of potentially pathogenic, septicemia- and meningitis-causing E. coli across the wastewater treatment train

D Yu, K Ryu, SJG Otto, P Stothard, G Banting… - NPJ Clean …, 2022 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence indicates that extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) readily
survive wastewater treatment, raising concerns about the public health risks associated with …

Evaluation of fecal coliform prevalence and physicochemical indicators in the effluent from a wastewater treatment plant in the north-west province, South Africa

S Makuwa, M Tlou, E Fosso-Kankeu… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Compliance of the effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to the regulatory
standards, which mostly entail the removal/reduction of organic waste and deactivation of …