Irrigation water quality—A contemporary perspective

A Malakar, DD Snow, C Ray - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the race to enhance agricultural productivity, irrigation will become more dependent on
poorly characterized and virtually unmonitored sources of water. Increased use of irrigation …

Investigating antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, and microbial contaminants in groundwater in relation to the proximity of urban areas

E Szekeres, CM Chiriac, A Baricz, T Szőke-Nagy… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Groundwater is an essential public and drinking water supply and its protection is a goal for
global policies. Here, we investigated the presence and prevalence of antibiotic residues …

Abundance of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial community composition in wastewater effluents from different Romanian hospitals

E Szekeres, A Baricz, CM Chiriac, A Farkas… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Antimicrobial resistance represents a growing and significant public health threat, which
requires a global response to develop effective strategies and mitigate the emergence and …

Antimicrobial resistance in the environment

H Waseem, MR Williams, RD Stedtfeld… - Water Environment …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This review summarizes selected publications of 2016 with emphasis on occurrence and
treatment of antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria in the aquatic environment and …

Occurrence of emerging sulfonamide resistance (sul1 and sul2) associated with mobile integrons-integrase (intI1 and intI2) in riverine systems

P Chaturvedi, A Singh, P Chowdhary, A Pandey… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global use of antibiotics has exceedingly enhanced in agricultural, veterinary and
prophylactic human use in recent days. Hence, these antibiotics can easily be found in the …

[HTML][HTML] Multidrug-resistant bacteria and microbial communities in a river estuary with fragmented suburban waste management

JY Ho, MC Jong, K Acharya, SSX Liew… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
River systems in developing and emerging countries are often fragmented relative to land
and waste management in their catchment. The impact of inconsistent waste management …

Antibiotic-resistant indicator bacteria in irrigation water: High prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli

MT Gekenidis, W Qi, J Hummerjohann, R Zbinden… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Irrigation water is a major source of fresh produce contamination with undesired
microorganisms including antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), and contaminated fresh …

Antibiotic Resistance in Pseudomonas spp. Through the Urban Water Cycle

A Butiuc-Keul, R Carpa, D Podar, E Szekeres… - Current …, 2021 - Springer
Selection and dissemination of resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
require a deeper understanding since antibiotics are permanently released to the …

Monitoring microbial contamination of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolated from the surface water of urban park in southeastern Brazil

JHP Américo-Pinheiro, LC Bellatto… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contamination of water resources through anthropic activities can alter water quality. The
objective of this study was to monitor the presence and concentration of Escherichia coli in …

Investigating the potential use of an Antarctic variant of Janthinobacterium lividum for tackling antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach

A Baricz, A Teban, CM Chiriac, E Szekeres, A Farkas… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The aim of this paper is to describe a new variant of Janthinobacterium lividum-ROICE173,
isolated from Antarctic snow, and to investigate the antimicrobial effect of the crude bacterial …