Monitoring the exposure and emissions of antibiotic resistance: Co-occurrence of antibiotics and resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants

• Main Authors: Ruud Steenbeek (Author), Peer H. A. Timmers (Author), Danielle van der Linde (Author), Kay Hup (Author), Luc Hornstra (Author), Frederic Been (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: IWA Publishing, 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new momentum to 'wastewater-based epidemiology' (WBE). This approach can be applied to monitor the levels of antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs), which in terms are used to make inferences about the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in human settlemen...