Raw wastewater irrigation for urban agriculture in Africa increases the diversity of transferable antibiotic resistances genes in soil, including those encoding ESBLs
B. Bougnom, S. Thiele-Bruhn, R. Vito, C. Zongo, L. Piddock
This study shows that using raw wastewater for urban agriculture in Africa increases soil diversity of transferable antibiotic resistance genes, including ESBLs, posing public health risks.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2019Microbiology