Sewage effluent from an Indian hospital harbors novel carbapenemases and integron-borne antibiotic resistance genes

2019116 citationsJournal Articlegold Open Access

Authors

Nachiket P. Marathe · Norwegian Institute of Marine Research

Fanny Berglund · University of Gothenburg

Mohammad Razavi · University of Gothenburg

Chandan Pal · Ministry for Primary Industries

Johannes Dröge · Chalmers University of Technology

Sharvari Samant

Erik Kristiansson · University of Gothenburg

Abstract

By exploring hospital wastewater from India, our understanding of the diversity of carbapenemases has been extended. The study also demonstrates that the microbiota of hospital wastewater can serve as a reservoir of novel resistance genes, including previously uncharacterized carbapenemases with the potential to spread further.

Topics & Keywords

Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts Infections and bacterial resistance

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Clean water and sanitation

Publication Details

Published in: Microbiome

Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 97-97

DOI: 10.1186/s40168-019-0710-x

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