Hydraulic modelling reveals untreated sewage, not pharmaceutical waste, drives antimicrobial resistance in a small river running through a big city
Vikas Sonkar, Arun Kumar Kashyap, Rebeca Pallarés-Vega, Sai Sugitha Sasidharan, Ankit Modi, Cansu Uluşeker, Sangeetha Chandrakalabai Jambu, Pranab Kumar Mohapatra, Joshua Larsen, David W. Graham, Shashidhar Thatikonda, Jan‐Ulrich Kreft
The paper uses hydraulic modeling and field data to show that untreated sewage, not pharmaceutical waste, is the main source of antimicrobial resistance in the Musi River.
bioRxiv · Dec 21, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology