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Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
Author(s) -
Williams Maggie R.,
Stedtfeld Robert D.,
Guo Xueping,
Hashsham Syed A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
water environment research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.356
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1554-7531
pISSN - 1061-4303
DOI - 10.2175/106143016x14696400495974
Subject(s) - aquatic environment , antibiotic resistance , wastewater , sewage treatment , aquaculture , environmental science , resistance (ecology) , environmental engineering , environmental planning , fish <actinopterygii> , biology , antibiotics , ecology , fishery , microbiology and biotechnology
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.