What happens in hospitals does not stay in hospitals: antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital wastewater systems

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 395-402

  Hocquet, D ^a,b   Muller, A ^a,b   Bertrand, X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Extended spectrum lactamase; Multidrug resistance; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Vancomycin resistant enterococcus; Wastewater; Wastewater treatment plants

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL LOAD; EFFLUENT; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL WASTE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SELECTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; WASTE WATER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SELECTION, GENETIC; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84959432745     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2016.01.010     Document Type: Review

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