Risk control of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) during sewage sludge treatment and disposal: A review

J Wang, S Xu, K Zhao, G Song, S Zhao, R Liu - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge is an important reservoir of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs),
and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and the …

Different microplastics distinctively enriched the antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic sludge digestion through shifting specific hosts and promoting horizontal …

T Luo, X Dai, Z Chen, L Wu, W Wei, Q Xu, BJ Ni - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Both microplastics (MPs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are intensively detected in
waste activated sludge (WAS). However, the distinctive impacts of different MPs on ARGs …

Development of electrocoagulation process for wastewater treatment: optimization by response surface methodology

M Ebba, P Asaithambi, E Alemayehu - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Electrocoagulation (EC) is a process used by supply of electric current with sacrificial
electrodes for the removal of pollutant from wastewater. The study was experimentally …

A review of bacterial antibiotic resistance genes and their removal strategies from wastewater

ZZ Noor, Z Rabiu, MHM Sani, AFA Samad… - Current Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Purpose of review This review is intended to address the issues of unsafe disposal of
antibiotics from various sources to the environment, its incomplete degradation, the resulting …

Total nitrogen removal in biochar amended non-aerated vertical flow constructed wetlands for secondary wastewater effluent with low C/N ratio: Microbial community …

FO Ajibade, HC Wang, A Guadie, TF Ajibade… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biochar was utilized to intensify constructed wetland (CW) for further organic and nitrogen
removal from secondary wastewater. Four sets of non-aerated biochar amended vertical …

Watershed urbanization enhances the enrichment of pathogenic bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes on microplastics in the water environment

H Li, Q Luo, S Zhao, P Zhao, X Yang, Q Huang… - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) serve as vectors for microorganisms and antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) and contribute to the spread of pathogenic bacteria and ARGs across various …

Bioelectrochemical processes and cellulosic carbon source enhance the autotrophic and heterotrophic denitrification of low C/N ratio wastewater in tidal flow …

K Zhang, S Yang, W Wang, H Luo, W Chen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
To solve the problem of poor nitrogen and phosphorus removal efficiency of low C/N ratio
wastewater, a siphon constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell (CW-MFC) reactor was …

Distinct effects of hypochlorite types on the reduction of antibiotic resistance genes during waste activated sludge fermentation: insights of bacterial community, cellular …

J Luo, W Huang, Q Zhang, Y Wu, F Fang, J Cao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
The effectiveness of hypochlorites (NaClO and Ca (ClO) 2) on the reduction of antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) during waste activated sludge (WAS) fermentation was determined …

Nanoselenium integrates soil-pepper plant homeostasis by recruiting rhizosphere-beneficial microbiomes and allocating signaling molecule levels under Cd stress

D Li, C Zhou, Y Wu, Q An, J Zhang, Y Fang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Most studies have focused on regulation in a metabolic pathway in response to exogenous
selenium under cadmium stress, rather than the change of key factors in soil and pepper …

[HTML][HTML] The prevalence of drug-resistant and virulent Staphylococcus spp. in a municipal wastewater treatment plant and their spread in the environment

W Zieliński, E Korzeniewska, M Harnisz… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drug-resistant and pathogenic Staphylococcus spp. strains can reach surface waters and air
with wastewater evacuated to the environment. These strains increase the environmental …