The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a major threat to public health. These bacteria enter the environment when wastewater leaves the treatment plant. The purification steps currently used in wastewater treatment plants are unable to eliminate these multidrug-resistant bacteria. <\/p>\n
A new study shows that these pathogenic bacteria can be eliminated cheaply and quickly through a combined treatment with sunlight and bacteriophages:<\/p>\n
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Al-Jassim N, Mantilla-Calderon D, Scarascia G, and Hong P-Y. Bacteriophages To Sensitize a Pathogenic New Delhi Metallo \u03b2-Lactamase-Positive Escherichia coli to Solar Disinfection \/\/ Environ. Sci. Technol., 2018, 52 (24): 14331-14341. DOI: 10.1021 \/ <\/a>acs<\/a>.est.8b04501<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a major threat to public health. These bacteria enter the environment when wastewater leaves the treatment plant. The purification steps currently used in wastewater treatment plants are unable to eliminate these multidrug-resistant bacteria. A new study shows that these pathogenic bacteria can be eliminated cheaply and quickly through a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bacteriophages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/waste-water.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phage.help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}