Reduction of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria During Conventional and Advanced Wastewater Treatment, and the Disseminated Loads Released to the Environment

Jäger, Thomas; Hembach, Norman; Elpers, Christian; Wieland, Arne; Alexander, Johannes; Hiller, Christian; Krauter, G.; Schwartz, Thomas

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02599

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Reduction of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria During Conventional and Advanced Wastewater Treatment, and the Disseminated Loads Released to the Environment

Published in Frontiers in Microbiology • Oct 30, 2018

Authors:

Thomas Jäger

Norman Hembach

Christian Elpers

Abstract

The occurrence of new chemical and microbiological contaminants in the aquatic environment has become an issue of increasing environmental concern. Thus, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play an important part in the distribution of so-called new emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistances. The...

Subject

Wastewater

Microbiology

Effluent

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