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| Title |
Efficient removal of antibiotics in surface-flow constructed wetlands, with no observed impact on antibiotic resistance genes
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| Published in |
Science of the Total Environment, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.128 |
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| Authors |
Björn Berglund, Ghazanfar Ali Khan, Stefan E.B. Weisner, Per Magnus Ehde, Jerker Fick, Per-Eric Lindgren |
| Abstract |
Recently, there have been growing concerns about pharmaceuticals including antibiotics as environmental contaminants. Antibiotics of concentrations commonly encountered in wastewater have been suggested to affect bacterial population dynamics and to promote dissemination of antibiotic resistance. Conventional wastewater treatment processes do not always adequately remove pharmaceuticals causing environmental dissemination of low levels of these compounds. Using constructed wetlands as an additional treatment step after sewage treatment plants have been proposed as a cheap alternative to increase reduction of wastewater contaminants, however this means that the natural microbial community of the wetlands becomes exposed to elevated levels of antibiotics. In this study, experimental surface-flow wetlands in Sweden were continuously exposed to antibiotics of concentrations commonly encountered in wastewater. The aim was to assess the antibiotic removal efficiency of constructed wetlands and to evaluate the impact of low levels of antibiotics on bacterial diversity, resistance development and expression in the wetland bacterial community. Antibiotic concentrations were measured using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and the effect on the bacterial diversity was assessed with 16S rRNA-based denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis. Real-time PCR was used to detect and quantify antibiotic resistance genes and integrons in the wetlands, during and after the exposure period. The results indicated that the antibiotic removal efficiency of constructed wetlands was comparable to conventional wastewater treatment schemes. Furthermore, short-term treatment of the constructed wetlands with environmentally relevant concentrations (i.e. 100-2000 ng×l(-1)) of antibiotics did not significantly affect resistance gene concentrations, suggesting that surface-flow constructed wetlands are well-suited for wastewater treatment purposes. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 243 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 2 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Estonia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 236 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 48 | 20% |
| Researcher | 27 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 26 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 8% |
| Other | 38 | 16% |
| Unknown | 62 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 68 | 28% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 32 | 13% |
| Engineering | 17 | 7% |
| Chemistry | 12 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 11 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 12% |
| Unknown | 74 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2014.
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#6,754,036
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#8,645
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#73,216
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Outputs of similar age from Science of the Total Environment
#36
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Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 29,625 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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