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Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants ...
Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Vaz-Moreira, Ivone; Varela Della Giustina, Saulo; Llorca, Marta; Barceló, Damia; Schubert, Sara; Berendonk, Thomas U.A comprehensive monitoring of a broad set of antibiotics in the final effluent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) of 7 European countries (Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Cyprus, Germany, Finland, and Norway) was carried out in two consecutive years (2015 and 2016). This is the first study of this kind performed at an international level. Within the 53 antibiotics monitored 17 were detected at least once in the f...
Antibiotic resistance genes in the human-impacted environment: a one health per...
Tiedje, James M.; Wang, Fang; Manaia, Célia M.; Virta, Marko; Sheng, Hongjie; Ma, Liping; Zhang, Tong; Topp, EdwardAntibiotic resistance and its environmental component are gaining more attention as part of combating the growing healthcare crisis. The One Health framework, promulgated by many global health agencies, recognizes that antimicrobial resistance is a truly inter-domain problem in which human health, animal agriculture, and the environment are the core and interrelated components. This prospectus presents the stat...
Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the patte...
Pärnänen, Katariina M. M.; Narciso-da-Rocha, Carlos; Kneis, David; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Cacace, Damiano; Do, Thi Thuy; Elpers, ChristianIntegrated antibiotic resistance (AR) surveillance is one of the objectives of the World Health Organization global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. Urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs) are among the most important receptors and sources of environmental AR. On the basis of the consistent observation of an increasing north-to-south clinical AR prevalence in Europe, this study compared the influent a...
Development of a whole-cell bioreporter for tributyltin (TBT)
Cruz, Andreia; Hynninen, Anu; Virta, Marko; Mendo, Sónia