期刊
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
卷 87, 期 -, 页码 49-55出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.11.011
关键词
Soil fertilisation; Antibiotic-resistant bacteria; Antibiotic resistance genes; Co-resistance; Heavy metals; Environmental resistome
资金
- National Science Centre (NCN) [2014/13/N/NZ9/03915, 2013/11/D/NZ9/0251]
- DoktoRIS - Scholarship programme for innovative Silesia - European Union under European Social Fund
Sewage sludge is an ever-increasing by-product of the wastewater treatment process frequently used as a soil fertiliser. To control its quality and prevent any possible hazardous impact of fertilisation, some mandatory limits of heavy metal content have been established by the European Commission (Sewage Sludge Directive). However, since the implementation of the limits, new emerging contaminants have been reported worldwide. Regardless of the wastewater treatment process, sewage sludge contains antibiotics, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes, which can be released into the environment through its land application. Such a practice may even boost the dissemination and further development of antibiotic resistance phenomenon already a global problem challenging modern medicine. Due to the growing pharmaceutical pollution in the environment, the time is ripe to assess the risk for the human and environmental health of sewage sludge land application in the context of antibiotic resistance spread. In this review we present the current knowledge in the field and we emphasise the necessity for more studies. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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