Human health risk assessment (HHRA) for environmental development and transfer of antibiotic resistance

NJ Ashbolt, A Amézquita, T Backhaus… - Environmental …, 2013 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Only recently has the environment been clearly implicated in the risk of
antibiotic resistance to clinical outcome, but to date there have been few documented …

The role of biofilms as environmental reservoirs of antibiotic resistance

JL Balcázar, J Subirats, CM Borrego - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance has become a significant and growing threat to public and
environmental health. To face this problem both at local and global scales, a better …

Tetracyclines in food and feedingstuffs: from regulation to analytical methods, bacterial resistance, and environmental and health implications

F Granados-Chinchilla… - Journal of analytical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Antibiotics are widely used as growth promoters in animal husbandry; among them, the
tetracyclines are a chemical group of relevance, due to their wide use in agriculture …

A framework for standardized qPCR-targets and protocols for quantifying antibiotic resistance in surface water, recycled water and wastewater

I Keenum, K Liguori, J Calarco, BC Davis… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Water environments are increasingly recognized as a conduit for the spread of antibiotic
resistance, but there is need to standardize antibiotic resistance monitoring protocols to …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in environmental antibiotic resistance genes detection and research focus: From genes to ecosystems

B Ouyang, C Yang, Z Lv, B Chen, L Tong, J Shi - Environment International, 2024 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) persistence and potential harm have become more
widely recognized in the environment due to its fast-paced research. However, the …

Occurrence of antibiotics as emerging contaminant substances in aquatic environment

N Milić, M Milanović, NG Letić, MT Sekulić… - International journal …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the environment has become a subject of
growing concern. Due to the constant input of the emerging contaminants in the surface …

Inorganic and organic fertilizers impact the abundance and proportion of antibiotic resistance and integron-integrase genes in agricultural grassland soil

H Nõlvak, M Truu, K Kanger, M Tampere… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
Soil fertilization with animal manure or its digestate may facilitate an important antibiotic
resistance dissemination route from anthropogenic sources to the environment. This study …

Performance efficiency of conventional treatment plants and constructed wetlands towards reduction of antibiotic resistance

M Hazra, LM Durso - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Domestic and industrial wastewater discharges harbor rich bacterial communities, including
both pathogenic and commensal organisms that are antibiotic-resistant (AR). AR pathogens …

Constitutive presence of antibiotic resistance genes within the bacterial community of a large subalpine lake

A Di Cesare, EM Eckert, A Teruggi… - Molecular …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG s) in environmental microbial communities is of
primary concern as prodromal of a potential transfer to pathogenic bacteria. Although of …

Dynamics of antibiotic resistance genes and their relationships with system treatment efficiency in a horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland

H Nõlvak, M Truu, K Tiirik, K Oopkaup, T Sildvee… - Science of the total …, 2013 - Elsevier
Municipal wastewater treatment is one of the pathways by which antibiotic resistance genes
from anthropogenic sources are introduced into natural ecosystems. This study examined …