Sewage treatment plants may contribute to antibiotic resistance problem
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
Water discharged into lakes and rivers from municipal sewage treatment plants may contain significant concentrations of the genes that make bacteria antibiotic-resistant. That's the conclusion of a new study on a sewage treatment plant on Lake Superior in the Duluth, Minn., harbor that appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology.