Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater and Its Impact on a Receiving River: A Case Study of WWTP Brno-Modřice, Czech Republic

Antibiotic resistance has become a global threat in which the anthropogenically influenced aquatic environment represents not only reservoir for spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) among humans and animals but also an where genes are introduced into natural microbial ecosystems. Wastewater is one sources resistance. The aim this research was evaluation wastewater impact on water environment. In study, qPCR used to detect (ARGs)—blaCTX-M-15, blaCTX-M-32, ampC, blaTEM, sul1, tetM mcr-1 integron detection primer (intl1). Detection Escherichia coli as complement observed results. Our results show that process treatment significantly reduces abundances ARGs ARB. Nevertheless, treated affects ARB number receiving river.