Blaise P. Bougnom

TL;DR: The important role of the environment in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance is acknowledged, and the aquatic environment has been shown to act both as a natural reservoir and a channel for the spread of clinically relevant antibiotic resistance traits.

TL;DR: It is concluded that wastewater used for urban agriculture in the city represents a high risk for spreading bacteria and antimicrobial resistance among humans and animals.

TL;DR: Raw wastewater irrigated soils in African cities could represent a vector for the spread of antibiotic resistance, thus threatening human and animal health and consumers of products from these farms and farmers could be at risk of acquiring infections due to drug-resistant bacteria.

TL;DR: The clinically relevant environmental resistome found in raw sewage used for urban agriculture is common in West and Central Africa and the size of the city impacts on the abundance of drug-resistant genes in the raw sewage while ESBL gene abundance is related to the prevalence of Enterobacteriaceae along with plasmid Enterobacteriaiaceae abundance associated to faecal pollution.

TL;DR: High-throughput sequencing data of soil microbial communities in non-irrigated and irrigated soils with raw sewage in African cities are presented to study the potential of wastewater use in urban agriculture to disseminate bacterial resistance in soil.