The global widespread use of antimicrobials and accompanying increase in resistant bacterial strains is of major public health concern. Wastewater systems and wastewater treatment plants are considered a niche for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), with diverse microbial communities facilitating ARG transfer via mobile genetic element (MGE). In contrast to hospital sewage, wastewater from othe...

abstract aims: nurses are the greatest group of healthcare system service providers and lack of sufficient attentions to their quality of life will lead to the challenge of their service providing. the present study was designed to evaluate the quality of life in all nurses of different wards of a hospital in kashan city, iran. instrument & methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was ca...

Presented in this paper is a graphical technique for freshwater and wastewater minimisation in completely batch operations. Water minimisation is achieved through the exploitation of inter- and intra-process water reuse and recycle opportunities. In the context of this paper, a completely batch operation is one in which water reuse or recycle can only be effected either at the start or the end ...

SummaryBackground Wastewater-based monitoring represents a useful tool for antibiotic resistance surveillance. Aim To investigate the prevalence and abundance of genes (ARGs) in hospital wastewater over time. Methods Wastewater from two hospitals Finland (HUS1 HUS2) was monitored weekly nine weeks (weeks 25–33) summer 2020. A high-throughput real-time polymer...

BACKGROUND Concerns have been raised about the public health implications of the presence of antibiotic residues in the aquatic environment and their effect on the development of bacterial resistance. While there is information on antibiotic residue levels in hospital effluent from some other countries, information on antibiotic residue levels in effluent from Indian hospitals is not available....

This study describes the temporal and spatial variability of bacterial communities within a combined sewer system in England. Sampling was conducted over 9 months in a sewer system with intensive monitoring of hydraulic conditions. The bacterial communities were characterized by 16S rRNA gene-targeted terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. These data were related to the hyd...

Hospitals and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are high-risk point sources of antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This study investigates the occurrence clinically relevant ARGs (sul1, tet(B), blaCTX-M, blaNDM-1, qnrS) a class one integron (intI1) gene in urban rivers, hospitals, municipal Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Twenty-five water samples were collected from th...

The impact of effluent wastewaters from four different hospitals: a university (1456 beds), a general (350 beds), a pediatric (110 beds) and a maternity hospital (96 beds), which are conveyed to the same wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), was evaluated in the receiving urban wastewaters. The occurrence of 78 pharmaceuticals belonging to several therapeutic classes was assessed in hospital efflu...