Deciphering the removal of antibiotics and the antibiotic resistome from typical hospital wastewater treatment systems
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Hospital wastewater treatment systems (HWTSs) are a significant source and reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and a crucial hub for transmitting ARGs from clinical to natural environments. However, there is a lack of research on the antibiotic resistome of clinical wastewater in HWTSs. In this study, we used metagenomics to analyze the prevalence and abundance of ARGs in five typical HWTSs. A total of 17 antibiotics from six categories were detected in the five HWTSs; β-lactam antibiotics were found at the highest concentrations, with up to 4074.08 ng·L-1. We further found a total of 21 ARG types and 1106 subtypes of ARGs with the highest percentage of multi-drug resistance genes (evgS, msbA, arlS, and baeS). The most abundant last-resort ARGs were mcr, which were detected in 100 % of the samples. HWTSs effluent is a major pathway for the transmission of last-resort ARGs into urban wastewater networks. The removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and ARGs from HWTSs was mainly achieved by tertiary treatment, i.e., chlorine disinfection, but antibiotics and ARGs were still present in the HWTSs effluent or even increased after treatment. Moreover, antibiotics and heavy metals (especially mercury) in hospital effluents can exert selective pressure for antibiotic resistance, even at low concentrations. Qualitative analyses based on metagenome-assembled genome analysis revealed that the putative hosts of the identified ARGs are widely distributed among Pseudomonas, Acidovorax, Flavobacterium, Polaromonas, and Arcobacter. Moreover, we further assessed the clinical availability of ARGs and found that multidrug ARGs had the highest clinical relevance values. This study provides new impulses for monitoring and removing antibiotics and ARGs in the hospital sewage treatment process.
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The Science of the total environment - 926(2024) vom: 20. Apr., Seite 171806 |
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He, Dahai [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 17.04.2024 Date Revised 17.04.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a Hospital wastewater treatment systems (HWTSs) are a significant source and reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and a crucial hub for transmitting ARGs from clinical to natural environments. However, there is a lack of research on the antibiotic resistome of clinical wastewater in HWTSs. In this study, we used metagenomics to analyze the prevalence and abundance of ARGs in five typical HWTSs. A total of 17 antibiotics from six categories were detected in the five HWTSs; β-lactam antibiotics were found at the highest concentrations, with up to 4074.08 ng·L-1. We further found a total of 21 ARG types and 1106 subtypes of ARGs with the highest percentage of multi-drug resistance genes (evgS, msbA, arlS, and baeS). The most abundant last-resort ARGs were mcr, which were detected in 100 % of the samples. HWTSs effluent is a major pathway for the transmission of last-resort ARGs into urban wastewater networks. The removal of antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and ARGs from HWTSs was mainly achieved by tertiary treatment, i.e., chlorine disinfection, but antibiotics and ARGs were still present in the HWTSs effluent or even increased after treatment. Moreover, antibiotics and heavy metals (especially mercury) in hospital effluents can exert selective pressure for antibiotic resistance, even at low concentrations. Qualitative analyses based on metagenome-assembled genome analysis revealed that the putative hosts of the identified ARGs are widely distributed among Pseudomonas, Acidovorax, Flavobacterium, Polaromonas, and Arcobacter. Moreover, we further assessed the clinical availability of ARGs and found that multidrug ARGs had the highest clinical relevance values. This study provides new impulses for monitoring and removing antibiotics and ARGs in the hospital sewage treatment process | ||
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