Could the load of carbapenemase genes in hospital wastewater be a proxy for emerging resistance to carbapenems in humans?

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control · 2026 · PMC12914965 · PMID 41588544

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The difference in normalised quantification of bla CTX-M was highly significant between SRR and HRR, but unexpectedly bla CTX-M was more prevalent in SRR (Fig. 3 A).

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