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Wastewater surveillance reveals patterns of antibiotic resistance across the United States
2025-04-04
Abstract excerpt
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health threat, with over 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections and 35,000 attributable deaths annually in the U.S. Clinical surveillance can miss asymptomatic carriage of antibiotic resistance. Here, we sought to use wastewater monitoring to assess community-level burden of antibiotic resistance. We quantify concentrations of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by dig...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 27b6a4a8-bc57-5fab-a1bc-70f88000b51e
- DOI
- 10.1101/2025.04.02.25325128
