Hospital wastewater

Hospital Effluent Discharges as Dynamic Hotspots for Multidrug-resistant Pathogens: Sources, Selection, Dissemination, Surveillance and Control

M. A. Adefisoye, Oluwagbemisola. C. Adewusi, Mary AdejumokeAdelowo & Nasiru Bright Lecky · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2026

Hospital effluent is widely described as a hotspot for antimicrobial resistance, yet the term hotspot is often used without distinguishing concentration, absolute load, clinical relevance, mobility, selection pressure, temporal variability or downstream exposure. This critical na...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/mrji/2026/v36i81773

Plasmid Carriage and Antibiotics Susceptibility of Cultivable Bacteria Isolated from Hospital Wastewater

M. P. Uko, S. C. U. Nwachukwu & S. I. Umana · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2017

Careless discharge of wastewater is another source of which the environmental health is continuously being threatened. Hospital wastewater contains clinically relevant strains. Study was undertaken on the prevalence of antibiotics resistant bacteria (ARB) in hospital wastewater a...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/MRJI/2017/36417