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One Health: The Role Wastewater Treatment Plants Play as Reservoirs, Amplifiers, and Transmitters of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

Antimicrobial Resistance in Wastewater Treatment Processes, Page: 35-53
2017
  • 2
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  • 15
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  • Citations
    2
    • Citation Indexes
      2
  • Captures
    15

Book Chapter Description

This chapter reviews the roles that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their products play as reservoirs and potential amplifiers of antibiotic resistant bacterias (ARBs) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), their role in bacterial diversity and/or transmission through the lens of a One Health perspective, and their influence on the health of humans, animals, and the environment. One Health is a concept that recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and the environment are inextricably linked, and thus a collaborative and integrated multidisciplinary approach is needed to maintain the health of all. The One Health approach represents a contrast to traditional practices of human and animal medicine, which have been studied and practiced in isolation rather than as part of a world ecosystem. ARGs and ARB have been found throughout the wastewater treatment process from raw influent, primary and secondary effluent, aeration tanks, activated sludge, and residual biosolids.

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