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- Antibiotic resistance in wastewater, does the context matter? Poland and Portugal as a case studyPublication . Vaz-Moreira, Ivone; Harnisz, Monika; Abreu-Silva, Joana; Rolbiecki, Damian; Korzeniewska, Ewa; Luczkiewicz, Aneta; Manaia, Célia M.; Plaza, GrazynaAntibiotic resistance has been considered a major human health threat that may endanger the success of medicine. Recent studies have unveiled worldwide asymmetries of antibiotic resistance occurrence, being factors as diverse as climate, socioeconomic, or antibiotic use possible drivers of such asymmetric distribution. In Europe, where clinical antibiotic resistance is surveyed for more than 20 years, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) consistently describes an increasing gradient from North-to-South and from West-to-East. This observation motivated the current perspective paper aiming to qualitatively compare two countries located at the extreme latitude of Europe and also at distant longitude - Poland in the Central-East region and Portugal in the South-West. Both countries have been among those with the highest prevalence of antibiotic resistance in clinical settings, although as it is discussed, climate, socioeconomic factors, and antibiotic use are different. In general, in Poland higher antibiotic consumption and resistance prevalence is observed, mainly at the community level, when compared to Portugal. However, in Portugal, treated wastewater may hold identical or slightly higher resistance loads. Based on these observations, it is discussed how different factors may influence the abundance of antibiotics, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and genes in wastewater before and after treatment.
- A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plantsPublication . Marano, Roberto B.M.; Fernandes, Telma; Manaia, Célia M.; Nunes, Olga; Morrison, Donald; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Kreuzinger, Norbert; Tenson, Tanel; Corno, Gianluca; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Merlin, Christophe; Topp, Edward; Henn, Leonie; Scott, Andrew; Heß, Stefanie; Slipko, Katarzyna; Laht, Mailis; Kisand, Veljo; Cesare, Andrea Di; Karaolia, Popi; Michael, Stella G.; Petre, Alice L.; Rosal, Roberto; Pruden, Amy; Riquelme, Virginia; Agüera, Ana; Esteban, Belen; Luczkiewicz, Aneta; Kalinowska, Agnieszka; Leonard, Anne; Gaze, William H.; Adegoke, Anthony A.; Stenstrom, Thor A.; Pollice, Alfieri; Salerno, Carlo; Schwermer, Carsten U.; Krzeminski, Pawel; Guilloteau, Hélène; Donner, Erica; Drigo, Barbara; Libralato, Giovanni; Guida, Marco; Bürgmann, Helmut; Beck, Karin; Garelick, Hemda; Tacão, Marta; Henriques, Isabel; Martínez-Alcalá, Isabel; Guillén-Navarro, Jose M.; Popowska, Magdalena; Piotrowska, Marta; Quintela-Baluja, Marcos; Bunce, Joshua T.; Polo-López, Maria I.; Nahim–Granados, Samira; Pons, Marie-Noëlle; Milakovic, Milena; Udikovic-Kolic, Nikolina; Ory, Jérôme; Ousmane, Traore; Caballero, Pilar; Oliver, Antoni; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Balcazar, Jose L.; Jäger, Thomas; Schwartz, Thomas; Yang, Ying; Zou, Shichun; Lee, Yunho; Yoon, Younggun; Herzog, Bastian; Mayrhofer, Heidrun; Prakash, Om; Nimonkar, Yogesh; Heath, Ester; Baraniak, Anna; Abreu-Silva, Joana; Choudhury, Manika; P. Munoz, Leonardo; Krizanovic, Stela; Brunetti, Gianluca; Maile-Moskowitz, Ayella; Brown, Connor; Cytryn, EddieThe World Health Organization Global Action Plan recommends integrated surveillance programs as crucial strategies for monitoring antibiotic resistance. Although several national surveillance programs are in place for clinical and veterinary settings, no such schemes exist for monitoring antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment. In this transnational study, we developed, validated, and tested a low-cost surveillance and easy to implement approach to evaluate antibiotic resistance in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) by targeting cefotaxime-resistant (CTX-R) coliforms as indicators. The rationale for this approach was: i) coliform quantification methods are internationally accepted as indicators of fecal contamination in recreational waters and are therefore routinely applied in analytical labs; ii) CTX-R coliforms are clinically relevant, associated with extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), and are rare in pristine environments. We analyzed 57 WWTPs in 22 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North America. CTX-R coliforms were ubiquitous in raw sewage and their relative abundance varied significantly (<0.1% to 38.3%), being positively correlated (p < 0.001) with regional atmospheric temperatures. Although most WWTPs removed large proportions of CTX-R coliforms, loads over 103 colony-forming units per mL were occasionally observed in final effluents. We demonstrate that CTX-R coliform monitoring is a feasible and affordable approach to assess wastewater antibiotic resistance status.