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Frontiers in Water, 2021 In this study, the composition and richness of bacterial communities in treated and untreated wastewater from hospitals, commercial, and non-commercial fish farming sites, sewage effluents, and surface waters, which included seawater and fresh water in ...
Andre Freire Cruz +7 more
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NDM-1- and OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in wastewater of a Nigerian hospital
Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii spp. are increasingly important pathogens with limited treatment options, and there is limited knowledge on the environmental factors contributing to their spread.
Erkison Ewomazino Odih +3 more
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Genotoxicity evaluation of hospital wastewaters
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2009 In hospitals a large variety of substances are in use for medical purposes such as diagnostics and research. After application, diagnostic agents, disinfectants and excreted non-metabolized pharmaceuticals by patients reach the wastewater. Indeed, some of the substances found in wastewaters are genotoxic and are suspected to be a possible cause of the ...
Preeti, Gupta +4 more
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Microbiology of hospital wastewater
, 2020 The study of hospital wastewater (HWW) microbiology is important to understand the pollution load, growth of particular pathogenic microbes, shift and drift in microbial community, development and spread of antibiotic resistance in microbes, and subsequent change in treatment efficiencies.
Kaur, Rajwinder +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in hospital wastewater poses a great threat to public health, and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play an important role in reducing the levels of ARB and ARGs ...
Xueli Ma +20 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Antimicrobial resistance may develop in nature including in hospital wastewater through horizontal genetic transfer. Few studies were conducted on the antimicrobial resistance genes in hospital wastewater and wastewater isolates in Indonesia.
Dewi Santosaningsih +3 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Combined with human-to-human contact, the potential for SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission via aerosols and feces raises the urgency for effective treatment of hospital wastewater (HWW), which has been assumed as an important source of pathogenic ...
Tingting Yuan, Tingting Yuan, Yaya Pian
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Science of The Total Environment, 2023 Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) are a major health risk caused particularly by anthropogenic activities. Acquisition of antibiotic resistances by bacteria is known to have happened before the discovery of antibiotics and can occur through different routes.
Joana, Pires +2 more
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Antibiotic Resistance of Isolated Bacteria from Urban and Hospital Wastewaters in Hamadan City [PDF]
سلامت و محیط, 2011 "nBackground and Objectives: widely use of antibiotics as therapy and uncontrolled discharge of them to receiving waters increased the percentages of antibiotic resistant bacteria in various environments which may cause problems in therapy.
M Karimi +4 more
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Results in Engineering, 2022 Hospitals played vital role in the maintenance and sustenance of human health. However, hospital activities generate high volume of toxic solid and liquid containing diverse inorganic, organic and microbial wastes released untreated into the ecosystem ...
O.J. Ajala +4 more
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