Role of anaerobic sludge digestion in handling antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes - A review.

Bioresour Technol

Department of Biological Sciences, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA 70310, USA. Electronic address:

Published: June 2021

Currently, anaerobic sludge digestion (ASD) is considered not only for treating residual sewage sludge and energy recovery but also for the reduction of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). The current review highlights the reasons why antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and ARGs exist in ASD and how ASD performs in the reduction of ARB and ARGs. ARGs and ARB have been detected in ASD with some reports indicating some of the ARGs can be completely removed during the ASD process, while other studies reported the enrichment of ARB and ARGs after ASD. This paper reviews the performance of ASD based on operational parameters as well as environmental chemistry. More studies are needed to improve the performance of ASD in reducing ARGs that are difficult to handle and also differentiate between extracellular (eARGs) and intracellular ARGs (iARGs) to achieve more accurate quantification of the ARGs.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.124970DOI Listing

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