Open AccessAssessment of the Role of Wastewater Treatment Plant in Spread of Antibiotic Resistance and Bacterial Pathogens
Author(s) -
Yogesh Nimonkar,
Bhoomika Yadav,
Payal Talreja,
Ashutosh Sharma,
Shilpee Patil,
Sunita S. Saware,
Dilip R. Ranade,
Om Prakash
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of microbiology/indian journal of microbiology (print)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.523
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 0973-7715
pISSN - 0046-8991
DOI - 10.1007/s12088-019-00793-2
Subject(s) - effluent , wastewater , antibiotic resistance , biology , sewage treatment , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , bacteria , environmental engineering , environmental science , medicine , genetics
In current study, we performed a comparative study on bacterial load, total coliform counts and type of organisms present in pre- and post-treated wastewater samples from municipal wastewater treatment plant of Pune, India. In addition, we also studied the antibiotic resistance profiling and role of the selected treatment plant in spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment. Data showed that total 30 different bacterial species from 18-different genera were present in untreated wastewater while only 9 species from 6-different genera were present in post-treated effluent. Furthermore, pre-treated wastewater sample contains wide range of organisms with high levels of antibiotic resistance while bacterial load reduced drastically and pathogens were absent from post-treated effluent.