Luminita Gabriela Marutescu, Marcela Popa, Irina Gheorghe-Barbu, Ilda Czobor Barbu, Daloha Rodríguez-Molina, Fanny Berglund, Hetty Blaak, Carl-Fredrik Flach, Merel Aurora Kemper, Beate Spießberger, Laura Wengenroth, D G Joakim Larsson, Dennis Nowak, Katja Radon, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Andreas Wieser, Heike Schmitt, Gratiela Pircalabioru Gradisteanu, Corneliu Ovidiu Vrancianu, Mariana Carmen Chifiriuc
Antibiotics are an essential tool of modern medicine, contributing to significantly decreasing mortality and morbidity rates from infectious diseases. However, persistent misuse of these drugs has accelerated the evolution of antibiotic resistance, negatively impacting clinical practice. The environment contributes to both the evolution and transmission of resistance. From all anthropically polluted aquatic environments, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are probably the main reservoirs of resistant pathogens...
2023: Frontiers in Microbiology