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SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection of hospital isolation wards hygiene monitoring during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 outbreak in a Chinese hospital

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Objectives: The aim of this paper was to monitor the presence of SARS-Cov-2 among hospital environment surfaces, sewage, and personal protective equipment (PPE) of staffs in isolation wards in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China ...
Jie Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sewage and sewage-contaminated environments are the most prominent sources to isolate phages against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

open access: yesBMC Microbiology, 2021
Background P. aeruginosa is the primary source of hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately, antibiotic resistance is growing to precariously high levels, making the infections by this pathogen life-threatening and hard to cure.
Bahareh Lashtoo Aghaee   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Differentiating Enterococcus lineages in combined sewer overflow and potable water combating to hospital acquired high-level β-lactam resistance

open access: yesEnvironmental Challenges, 2021
Understanding the sewage borne transmission pathway of hospital-associated enterococci can provide an insight for developing effective strategies to reduce the spread of nosocomial pathogens and illnesses in low- and middle-income countries.
Marium Rehman   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pseudomonas defluvii sp. nov., isolated from hospital sewage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2020
A novel Gram-negative, obligate aerobic, mobile, rod-shaped and non-spore-forming bacterial strain, WCHP16T, was isolated from the wastewater treatment plant at West China Hospital in Chengdu, PR China. It was characterized using a polyphasic approach. Analysis of its 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain WCHP16T belonged to the genus
Jiayuan Qin   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Study of cyclophosphamide removal by using sodium hypochlorite: A case study on hospitals sewage [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Applied Research in Water and Wastewater
Due to the increasing incidence of cancer, the consumption of anti-cancer or neoplastic drugs has increased significantly. These compounds are not removed during wastewater treatment with sufficient efficiency, they could be found in the groundwater ...
Elham Asrari, Afsane Saemian
doaj   +1 more source

blaNDM-1-carrying Acinetobacter johnsonii detected in hospital sewage [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2013
This study screened hospital sewage for the presence of blaNDM.Colonies grown from plates containing meropenem streaked with hospital sewage were screened for blaNDM by PCR. Species identification was performed by sequencing 16S rRNA genes. Clonal relatedness of isolates was determined by Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence-PCR ...
Zhiyong, Zong, Xingzhuo, Zhang
openaire   +2 more sources

Investigating the removal of some pharmaceutical compounds in hospital wastewater treatment plants operating in Saudi Arabia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The concentrations of 12 pharmaceutical compounds (atenolol, erythromycin, cyclophosphamide, paracetamol, bezafibrate, carbamazepine, ciprofloxacin, caffeine, clarithromycin, lidocaine, sulfamethoxazole and Nacetylsulfamethoxazol (NACS)) were ...
Akunna, Joseph C.   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

A Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Resistance in the Irish Environment, 2018–2019

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2021
Water bodies worldwide have proven to be vast reservoirs of clinically significant antibiotic resistant organisms. Contamination of waters by anthropogenic discharges is a significant contributor to the widespread dissemination of antibiotic resistance ...
Brigid Hooban   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wastewater workers and hepatitis A virus infection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The main occupational hazard of wastewater workers (WWs) is the direct exposure to the variety of infectious agents present in sewage material, with hepatitis A virus (HAV) being the most frequent one.
CACACE, GIANLUCA   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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