Bacteriological quality, heavy metal and antibiotic resistance in Sapanca Lake, Turkey

Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance of Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from the Seve Dam, and Konak Pond, Kilis, Turkey

“…Ciftci Turetken et al (2019) informed the frequency of bacterial antibiotics and heavy metal resistance and bioindicator bacteria in the water samples taken from Sapanca Lake. They notified that the highest bacterial resistance was recorded as 88.10% against ampicillin in a total of resistant Gramnegative strains.…”

Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance Patterns of Indicator Bacteria in Surface Water Bodies of Kilis

“…Clinical data from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) emphasized that antibiotic-resistant among Gram-negative bacteria increased and ARGs spread into the environment (Khan et al 2019). The distribution of ARBs and ARGs in the lake system is easily impacted by discharging untreated wastewater from different sources such as hospitals, municipal inhabitants, livestock waste, and pharmaceutical industries (Ciftci Turetken et al 2019;Liang et al 2020;Nappier et al 2020). Thus, the lake systems have deteriorated due to these human and industrial activities.…”

“…The other pollutants including heavy metals, biocides, and chemical preservatives in aquatic ecosystems may exert coselection on the propagation of ARGs in lakes (Yang et al 2018;Haberecht et al 2019). Several literature studies revealed that heavy metals are the main course of ARG contamination in aquatic sediments and affect ARG distribution at sub-lethal levels (Czekalski et al 2014;Devarajan et al 2015;Xu et al 2017) Therefore, the emergence and distribution of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance Gr negative bacteria in water bodies were investigated by using culture-dependent and culture-independent-based approaches in the past years (Avsar et al 2018: Ciftci Turetken et al 2019). In the present study, the levels of indicator bacteria targeting the potential human pathogen by cultivation-based analysis and the frequency of antibiotic and heavy metal resistance of Enterobacteriaceae species as representative Gramnegative bacteria were investigated in the surface water samples taken from Kilis aquatic sources, in 2020, September.…”