Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment.
This review summarizes important publications from 2015 pertaining to the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment. Emphasis is placed on sources of antibiotic resistance in the aquatic environment including wastewater treatment plants, hospitals, and agriculture, treatment and mitigation techniques, and surveillance and analysis methodologies for characterizing abundance data. As such, this review is organized into the following sections: i) occurrence of AMR in the environment, including surface waters, aquaculture, and wastewater ii) treatment technologies, and iii) technologies for rapid surveillance of AMR, iv) transmission between matrices, v) databases and analysis methods, and vi) gaps in AMR understanding.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI., USA.
Maggie R
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Williams
Robert D
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Stedtfeld
Xueping
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Guo
Syed A
SA
Hashsham
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D017756:Aquaculture / Q000379:methods; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid; D062065:Wastewater / Q000382:microbiology; D014876:Water Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D062065:Wastewater