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Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review
Version 1
: Received: 9 May 2024 / Approved: 10 May 2024 / Online: 10 May 2024 (12:19:14 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 15 May 2024 / Approved: 15 May 2024 / Online: 15 May 2024 (15:38:09 CEST)
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EVOUNG CHANDJA, W. B.; Onanga, R.; Mbehang Nguema, P. P.; LENDAMBA, R. W.; MOUANGA-NDZIME, Y.; MAVOUNGOU, J. F.; GODREUIL, S. Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review. Preprints2024, 2024050651. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0651.v1
EVOUNG CHANDJA, W. B.; Onanga, R.; Mbehang Nguema, P. P.; LENDAMBA, R. W.; MOUANGA-NDZIME, Y.; MAVOUNGOU, J. F.; GODREUIL, S. Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review. Preprints 2024, 2024050651. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0651.v1
EVOUNG CHANDJA, W. B.; Onanga, R.; Mbehang Nguema, P. P.; LENDAMBA, R. W.; MOUANGA-NDZIME, Y.; MAVOUNGOU, J. F.; GODREUIL, S. Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review. Preprints2024, 2024050651. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0651.v1
APA Style
EVOUNG CHANDJA, W. B., Onanga, R., Mbehang Nguema, P. P., LENDAMBA, R. W., MOUANGA-NDZIME, Y., MAVOUNGOU, J. F., & GODREUIL, S. (2024). Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0651.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
EVOUNG CHANDJA, W. B., Jacques François MAVOUNGOU and Sylvain GODREUIL. 2024 "Emergence Of Antibiotic Residues And Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria In Hospital Wastewater: A Potential Dissemination Pathway Into The Environment: A Review" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202405.0651.v1
Abstract
Medicinal activities carried out within hospitals lead to a high consumption of antibiotics and subsequently result in a high excretion rate of antibiotic residues. These antibiotics consumed in human medicine are not fully absorbed by the body and are often discharged into the environment as biological waste from infected human patients. The significant water consumption in hospitals and the pharmaceutical impact on wastewater from healthcare facilities facilitate the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic-resistant genes in the environment. Hospital effluents could be doubly involved in the dissemination of antibiotic molecules and multidrug-resistant bacteria in various ecosystems.
The objective of this study is to characterize hospital effluents by assessing antibiotic concentrations and the diversity of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in these hospital wastewaters and within the environment (aquatic environments, rivers), as well as to inventory the bacteria present and those carrying antibiotic resistance in both hospital wastewater and the environment.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Waste Management and Disposal
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