Industrialization as a source of heavy metals and antibiotics which can enhance the antibiotic resistance in wastewater, sewage sludge and river water

  16 June 2021

The spread of antibiotic resistance is closely related with selective pressure in the environment. Wastewater from industrialized regions is characterized by higher concentrations of these pollutants than sewage from less industrialized areas. The aim of this study was to compare the concentrations of contaminants such as antibiotics and heavy metals (HMs), and to evaluate their impact on the spread of genes encoding resistance to antimicrobial drugs in samples of wastewater, sewage sludge and river water in two regions with different levels of industrialization. 

Further reading: Plos One
Author(s): Jakub Hubeny, Monika Harnisz , Ewa Korzeniewska, Martyna Buta, Wiktor Zieliński, Damian Rolbiecki, Joanna Giebułtowicz, Grzegorz Nałęcz-Jawecki, Grażyna Płaza
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