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SUBMITTER: Mutuku C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9219941 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mutuku Christopher C Melegh Szilvia S Kovacs Krisztina K Urban Peter P Virág Eszter E Heninger Reka R Herczeg Robert R Sonnevend Ágnes Á Gyenesei Attila A Fekete Csaba C Gazdag Zoltan Z
Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) 20220607 6
Antimicrobials in wastewater promote the emergence of antibiotic resistance, facilitated by selective pressure and transfer of resistant genes. Enteric bacteria belonging to <i>Escherichia coli</i>, <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>, <i>Klebsiella oxytoca</i>, <i>Enterobacter cloacae,</i> and <i>Citrobacter</i> species (<i>n</i> = 126) from hospital effluents and proximate wastewater treatment plant were assayed for susceptibility to four antimicrobial classes. The β-lactamase encoding genes harbored ...[more]