Risk control of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) during sewage sludge treatment and disposal: A review

J Wang, S Xu, K Zhao, G Song, S Zhao, R Liu - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge is an important reservoir of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs),
and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and the …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment

M Zhuang, Y Achmon, Y Cao, X Liang, L Chen… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs)
in the microbiome is a major public health concern globally. Many habitats in the …

Review of antibiotic resistance in China and its environment

M Qiao, GG Ying, AC Singer, YG Zhu - Environment international, 2018 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis linked to increased, and often unrestricted,
antibiotic use in humans and animals. As one of the world's largest producers and …

[HTML][HTML] Sewage sludge in agriculture–the effects of selected chemical pollutants and emerging genetic resistance determinants on the quality of soil and crops–a …

M Buta, J Hubeny, W Zieliński, M Harnisz… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In line with sustainable development principles and in order to combat climate change,
which contributes to progressive soil depletion, various solutions are being sought to use …

[HTML][HTML] Plastics in the marine environment are reservoirs for antibiotic and metal resistance genes

Y Yang, G Liu, W Song, C Ye, H Lin, Z Li, W Liu - Environment international, 2019 - Elsevier
Plastics have been accumulated offshore and in the deep oceans at an unprecedented
scale. Microbial communities have colonized the plastisphere, which has become a …

Different microplastics distinctively enriched the antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic sludge digestion through shifting specific hosts and promoting horizontal …

T Luo, X Dai, Z Chen, L Wu, W Wei, Q Xu, BJ Ni - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Both microplastics (MPs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are intensively detected in
waste activated sludge (WAS). However, the distinctive impacts of different MPs on ARGs …

Wastewater treatment plant resistomes are shaped by bacterial composition, genetic exchange, and upregulated expression in the effluent microbiomes

F Ju, K Beck, X Yin, A Maccagnan… - The ISME …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are implicated as hotspots for the dissemination of
antibacterial resistance into the environment. However, the in situ processes governing …

The potential implications of reclaimed wastewater reuse for irrigation on the agricultural environment: the knowns and unknowns of the fate of antibiotics and …

A Christou, A Agüera, JM Bayona, E Cytryn… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The use of reclaimed wastewater (RWW) for the irrigation of crops may result in the
continuous exposure of the agricultural environment to antibiotics, antibiotic resistant …

Long-term field application of sewage sludge increases the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in soil

Q Chen, X An, H Li, J Su, Y Ma, YG Zhu - Environment international, 2016 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge and manure are common soil amendments in crop production; however,
their impact on the abundance and diversity of the antibiotic resistome in soil remains …

Mobile antibiotic resistome in wastewater treatment plants revealed by Nanopore metagenomic sequencing

Y Che, Y **a, L Liu, AD Li, Y Yang, T Zhang - Microbiome, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are recognized as hotspots for
horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Despite our …