Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12520%2F25%3A43910144" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12520/25:43910144 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.15.25325896" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.15.25325896</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44259-025-00149-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s44259-025-00149-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Environmental hazards from pollution of antibiotics and resistance-driving chemicals in an urban river network from Malawi
Original language description
African communities have a high prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial carriage, alongside high levels of antibiotic usage and environmental pollution. Limited access to water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure and wastewater treatment facilities enables the dissemination of resistant bacteria, antimicrobials and antibiotic resistance-driving chemicals (ARDCs) into local rivers. Few data exist quantifying the chemical drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in urban aquatic environments from African settings. In this longitudinal surveillance study, we investigated an urban river network in Blantyre, Malawi over a continuous 12-month period, identifying a broad-range of chemical pollutants, including antibiotics, common pharmaceuticals, agricultural and industrial chemicals and heavy metals. Antimicrobial concentrations were found at levels selective for AMR and ARDCs exhibited seasonal variations, indicating that deficient sanitation infrastructure and anthropogenic factors result in high antibiotic and ARDC levels entering the river systems, which serve as an important ecological niche for the acquisition, maintenance and transmission of AMR.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX20-04676X" target="_blank" >GX20-04676X: Holistic exposure and effect potential assessment of complex chemical mixtures in the aquatic environment</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NPJ Antimicrobials and Resistance
ISSN
2731-8745
e-ISSN
2731-8745
Volume of the periodical
3
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
nestránkováno
UT code for WoS article
001636075600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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