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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 51, 期 23, 页码 13906-13912出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b03380
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- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (EASE-TEC) [RP03251]
- UK EPSRC [EP/K503885/1]
- MRC [MR/P028195/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/N020626/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K503885/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/P028195/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/N020626/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Increasing antibiotic resistant hospital-acquired infections and limited new antibiotic discovery are jeopardizing human health at global scales, although how hospitals themselves fuel antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the wider environment is largely unknown. Antibiotic resistance (AR) in hospitals in countries such as India is potentially problematic because of high antibiotic use, overcrowding, and inadequate wastewater containment. Here we quantified fecal coliforms (FC), carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), bla(NDM-1), and selected extended-spectrum beta-lactam (ESBL) resistant bacteria and genes in 12 hospital wastewater outfalls and five background sewer drains across New Delhi over two seasons. Hospital wastewaters had up to 9 orders of magnitude greater concentrations of CRE bacteria and bla(NDM-1), than local sewers (depending on the hospital), implying hospitals contribute high concentrations of AR relative to community sources in Delhi, especially during the winter. Significant correlations were found between FC levels (a fecal indictor), and CRE (r = 0.924; p = 0.005), bla(NDM-1) (r = 0.934, p = 0.009), and ESBL-resistant bacteria (r = 0.913, p = 0.010) levels across hospital wastewaters, respectively, implying that elevated CRE and bla(NDM-1) are of patient origin. However, of greater importance to global health, microbial culturing found 18 to 41% of wastewater CRE isolates (n = 1447) were on the WHO critical pathogen list in urgent need of new antibiotics, and 55% of CRE isolates from larger hospitals carried at least one bla(NDM-1) gene. Wastewater releases from New Delhi hospitals may pose a greater AR exposure risk to residents than believed, implying in-hospital antibiotic use must be better controlled and more effective waste treatment is needed for hospital wastewaters.
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