Wiktor Zieliński

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the existing knowledge on selected emerging contaminants in treated sewage sludge and describes the impact of these pollutants on the environment and living organisms based on 183 publications selected from over 16,000 papers on related topics published over the last ten years.

TL;DR: In this paper, a quantitative analysis of ARGs in the metagenomic DNA from nasal and throat swabs collected from the wastewater treatment plant employees was made, and statistically significant correlations between the concentration of the gene of resistance to heavy metals cnrA versus ARGs, and between the ARGs content and the concentrations of heavy metals in both wastewater and river water samples were observed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the concentrations of contaminants such as antibiotics and heavy metals (HMs), and evaluated their impact on the spread of genes encoding resistance to antimicrobial drugs in samples of wastewater, sewage sludge and river water in two regions with different levels of industrialization.

TL;DR: Results indicate that wastewater is not effectively treated in the analysed WWTP, which could contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) to the environment.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed the prevalence of carbapenem resistance genes in Acinetobacter spp. isolated from wastewater in a municipal WWTP and determined their spread from treated wastewater to river water with the use of conventional and molecular microbiology methods (qualitative and quantitative PCR and metagenomic analysis).