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BMC 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
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Environmental 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
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A Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Resistance in the Irish Environment, 2018–2019
Environment 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
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BMC Research Notes, 2018 Objective According to the World Health Organization, the increasing antibiotic resistance of pathogens is one of the most important threats to human health.
Vinod Kumar Basode +7 more
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blaNDM-1-carrying Acinetobacter johnsonii detected in hospital sewage [PDF]
Journal 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
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Infection and Drug Resistance, 2021 Miwa Katagiri,1,2 Makoto Kuroda,2 Tsuyoshi Sekizuka,2 Norihide Nakada,3 Yukitaka Ito,4 Masanobu Otsuka,4 Manabu Watanabe,1 Shinya Kusachi1 1Department of Surgery, Toho University Ohashi Medical Center, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan; 2Laboratory of Bacterial ...
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Antibiotics, 2021 Hospital sewage constitutes an important point source for antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to the high antibiotic use. Antibiotic resistance can develop and cause problems in sewage systems within hospitals and municipal wastewater ...
Sofia Svebrant +7 more
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Pseudomonas defluvii sp. nov., isolated from hospital sewage
International 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
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مجلة بغداد للعلوم, 2017 Most approaches to combat antibiotic resistant bacteria concentrate on discovering new antibiotics or modifying existing ones. However, one of the most promising alternatives is the use of bacteriophages.
Baghdad Science Journal
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Impact of dissolved oxygen on hospital wastewater quality treated by SBBR in Basrah city, Iraq
Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska, 2022 The hospitals close to the residences can make problems for the environment as a consequence of sewage drained into the water stream. Sequencing batch biofilm reactor (SBBR) offers advantages for treating sewage; such as simple operation, flexible ...
Wisam S AL-REKABI +2 more
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