A5041236728- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
Catalan Institute for Water Research
2015-2024
University of Girona
2014-2024
Migratory birds may have a vital role in the spread of antimicrobial resistance across habitats and regions, but empirical data remain scarce. We investigated differences gut microbiome composition abundance antibiotic genes (ARGs) faeces from four migratory waterbirds wintering South-West Spain that differ their habitat use. The white stork Ciconia ciconia lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus are omnivorous opportunistic use highly anthropogenic such as landfills urban areas. greylag goose...
The Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotic Group (MCG) is an archaeal lineage whose members are widespread and abundant in marine sediments. MCG archaea have also been consistently found stratified euxinic lakes. In this work, we studied communities three karstic lakes to reveal potential habitat segregation of subgroups between planktonic sediment compartments. the lakes, assemblages were strikingly similar those subsurface with predominance uncultured Halobacteria plankton Thermoplasmata anoxic,...
Antibiotic transformation products (TPs) generated during water treatment can be considered as an environmental concern, since they retain part of the bioactivity parent compound. Effect-directed analysis (EDA) was applied for identification bioactive intermediates azithromycin (AZI) and ciprofloxacin (CFC) after chlorination. Fractionation samples allowed by measuring antibiotic activity acute toxicity, combined with automated suspect screening approach chemical analysis. While removal AZI...
Waterbirds are vectors for the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance across environments, with some species increasingly reliant on highly anthropized habitats feeding. However, data impact their feeding habits carriage antibiotic genes (ARGs) still scarce. To fill this gap, we examined microbiota (16S rRNA amplicon gene sequencing) and prevalence ARG (high-throughput qPCR 47 genes) in faeces from white storks (Ciconia ciconia) lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus) (landfill) less...
Gulls commonly rely on human-generated waste as their primary food source, contributing to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes, both locally globally. Our understanding this process remains incomplete, particularly in relation its potential interaction with surrounding soil water. We studied lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus, a model examine spatial variation faecal bacterial communities, antibiotic genes (ARGs), mobile genetic elements (MGEs) relationship...
Background: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are microbial factories aimed to reduce the amount of nutrients and pathogenic microorganisms in treated wastewater before its discharge into environment. We studied impact urban WWTP effluents on abundance antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli (AR-E. coli) last stretch two rivers (Arrone Tiber) Central Italy that differ size flow volume. Methods: Water samples were collected three seasons upstream downstream...
Documenting prehistoric and historical hemp retting for fiber extraction is important in the study of human uses this iconic plant its cultural implications. In paleoecology, usually inferred from indirect proxies, notably anomalously high percentages Cannabis pollen lake sediments, but some recent studies have also used specific molecular biomarkers (cannabinol, DNA) as more straightforward evidence. Here we provide direct evidence by identifying phylogenetic signatures (16S rRNA genes)...
Although antibiotic resistance has become a significant and growing threat to public environmental health, the occurrence prevalence of this phenomenon in seafood have not been extensively explored. This study aims evaluate impact subinhibitory concentrations on spread mussels. Marine blue mussels were exposed 100 μg/L sulfamethoxazole (SMX); then, presence genes conferring sulfonamides (sul1 sul2) class 1 integron-integrase gene (intI1) bacterial community composition associated with...
Documenting prehistoric and historical hemp retting for fiber extraction is important in the study of human uses this iconic plant its cultural implications. In paleoecology, usually inferred from indirect proxies, notably anomalously high percentages Cannabis pollen lake sediments, but some recent studies have also used specific molecular biomarkers (cannabinol, DNA) as a more straightforward evidence. Here we provide direct evidence by identifying phylogenetic signatures (16S rRNA genes)...