Antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants: Tackling the black box

CM Manaia, J Rocha, N Scaccia, R Marano… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is among the most important reservoirs of antibiotic resistance in urban
environments. The abundance of carbon sources and other nutrients, a variety of possible …

Marine microplastic-associated biofilms–a review

S Oberbeckmann, MGJ Löder… - Environmental …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Environmental context Marine microbial communities, which play a crucial role in all
biogeochemical processes in the oceans, could be affected by microplastic pollution …

Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing

D Numberger, L Ganzert, L Zoccarato, K Mühldorfer… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Wastewater treatment is crucial to environmental hygiene in urban environments. However,
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) collect chemicals, organic matter, and …

Size-dependent promotion of micro (nano) plastics on the horizontal gene transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in constructed wetlands

Y Zhao, Z Hu, H **e, H Wu, Y Wang, H Xu, S Liang… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been identified as significant sources of micro (nano)
plastics (MPs/NPs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in aquatic environments …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of presence and removal of antibiotic resistance genes during WWTP treatment: a cross-sectional study

R Pallares-Vega, H Blaak, R van der Plaats… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), linking human fecal residues and the environment,
are considered as hotspots for the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In order to …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality: current progress, challenges, and future opportunities

BF Tan, C Ng, JP Nshimyimana, LL Loh… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial ecology of a wastewater network defines the antibiotic resistance genes in downstream receiving waters

M Quintela-Baluja, M Abouelnaga, J Romalde, JQ Su… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are an effective barrier in the protection of human
and environment health around the world, although WWTPs also are suggested to be …

Supercarriers of antibiotic resistome in a world's large river

J Wang, R Pan, P Dong, S Liu, Q Chen, AGL Borthwick… - Microbiome, 2022 - Springer
Background Antibiotic resistome has been found to strongly interact with the core microbiota
in the human gut, yet little is known about how antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) correlate …

Characterisation of microbial communities and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in Italian wastewater treatment plants using 16S rRNA sequencing and …

GB Ferraro, C Bonomo, D Brandtner, P Mancini… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in
humans, animals and environment is a growing threat to public health. Wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of anthropogenic activities on the dissemination of ARGs in the environment—A review

M Czatzkowska, I Wolak, M Harnisz… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, due to the excessive consumption of drugs in human and
veterinary medicine, the antimicrobial resistance (AR) of microorganisms has risen …