Disinfection spreads antimicrobial resistance

Chlorine disinfection promotes the exchange of antibiotic resistance genes across bacterial genera by natural transformation

(2020) Min Jin et al.   ISME Journal

Disinfection technology of hospital wastes and wastewater: Suggestions for disinfection strategy during coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in China

(2020) Jiao Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Global trends in antimicrobial resistance in animals in low- and middle-income countries

(2019) Thomas P. Van Boeckel et al.   SCIENCE

Non-antibiotic antimicrobial triclosan induces multiple antibiotic resistance through genetic mutation

(2018) Ji Lu et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Exposure to and colonisation by antibiotic-resistant E. coli in UK coastal water users: Environmental surveillance, exposure assessment, and epidemiological study (Beach Bum Survey)

(2018) Anne F.C. Leonard et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Global Survey of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Air

(2018) Jing Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Increasing tolerance of hospital Enterococcus faecium to handwash alcohols

(2018) Sacha J. Pidot et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Mechanisms of Increased Resistance to Chlorhexidine and Cross-Resistance to Colistin following Exposure of Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates to Chlorhexidine

(2016) Matthew E. Wand et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Water Disinfection Byproducts Induce Antibiotic Resistance-Role of Environmental Pollutants in Resistance Phenomena

(2016) Dan Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Long-Term Exposure to Benzalkonium Chloride Disinfectants Results in Change of Microbial Community Structure and Increased Antimicrobial Resistance

(2013) Madan Tandukar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY