MicrobiologybioRxiv
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…·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.
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134201