Article
The microbiome and resistome of hospital sewage during passage through the community sewer system
2017-11-09
Abstract excerpt
Effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been proposed to act as point sources of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment. Hospital sewage may contribute to the spread of ARB and ARGs as it contains the feces and urine of hospitalized patients, who are more frequently colonized with multi-drug resistant bacteria than the general population. Ho...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 559f2613-d7ce-5e95-a1cb-650076e63b02
- DOI
- 10.1101/216242
