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Agnieszka Wiszniewska-Laszczych, Joanna Szteyn, Marta Soltysiuk, Jaroslaw Kowalik and Monika Modzelewska-Kapitula
The prevalence of staphylococci in the environment of humans, including food, may lead to the production of toxins and food poisoning in consumers. Additionally, staphylococci constitute a reservoir of genes determining antibiotic resistance. The study a...
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Anna Letocha, Alicja Michalczyk, Paulina Ostrowska, Malgorzata Miastkowska and Elzbieta Sikora
Probiotic bacteria confer health benefits to their host, support the intestinal microbiome and fight antibiotic resistance. Probiotic products are used in the food and pharmaceutical industries and, in recent years, have become increasingly popular in th...
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Maria Kalli, Constantinos Noutsopoulos and Daniel Mamais
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious problem for modern society, not only associated with clinical environments, but also the natural environment. Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are important nodes for the dissemination of antibi...
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Rojarani Pallavali, Donghyeok Shin and Jeongdong Choi
The presence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) in receiving water can severely threaten the aquatic environment and human health. The treated effluent containing ARB in some livestock wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is returned to the municipal ...
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Klaudia Kulik, Anna Lenart-Boron and Kinga Wyrzykowska
Environmental aquatic pollution with antibiotics is a global challenge that affects even pristine mountain environments. Monitoring the concentration of antibiotics in water is critical to water resource management. In this review, we present the sources...
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Jamilah Borjac, Wafaa Zeino, Alaa Matar, Salwa Khawaja, Maxime Merheb and Rachel Matar
Safe, accessible, and good water quality are essential characteristics for reducing various waterborne diseases. Since domestic water is the water most consumed by Lebanese people, cleaning household water tanks is important to prevent their exposure to ...
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Fuzheng Zhao, Qingmiao Yu and Xu-Xiang Zhang
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest challenges to public health and ecological safety in the 21st century. Urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs), as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), sim...
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Chi Zhang, Hanchen Miao, Zhongfang Lei, Tian Yuan, Zhenya Zhang, Ikko Ihara, Hideaki Maseda and Kazuya Shimizu
Antibiotic resistance genes can be spread via gene horizontal transfer (GHT). Chlorination and UV irradiation are common disinfection methods used in wastewater treatment plants before the discharge of treated wastewater. This study aimed to elucidate th...
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Mihaela Dumitru, Nicoleta Aurelia Lefter, Mihaela Habeanu, Georgeta Ciurescu, Dan C. Vodnar, Simon Elemer, Ionut Sorescu, Sergiu Emil Georgescu and Andreea Dudu
Fourteen lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains were isolated from the intestinal tract and feces of piglets. Among these isolates, only twelve were biochemically (API 50 CHL and ABIS online for bacterial identification) and genetically (16S rRNA sequencing)...
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Eleni Kakouri, Dimitra Daferera, Panayiotis Trigas, Despina Charalambous, Maria Pantelidou, Petros A. Tarantilis and Charalabos D. Kanakis
Hypericum perforatum is an herb whose use dates back centuries. Extracts of the plant are available as over-the-counter treatment options for depression. The genus consists of approximately 500 species, most of which have not yet been studied. Antimicrob...
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