2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3461-z
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Abstract: Vibrios and other enteric pathogens can be found in wastewater effluents of a healthy population. We assessed the prevalence of three non-cholerae vibrios in wastewater effluents of 14 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) in Chris Hani and Amathole district municipalities in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa for a period of 12 months. With the exception of WWTP10 where presumptive vibrios were not detected in summer and spring, presumptive vibrios were detected in all seasons in other WWTP effluents. Whe… Show more

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“…Some of the isolates tested were found to carry genes conferring resistance to more than one class of antibiotic. Other studies [59,60] have reported similar findings in environmental isolates. Even though most conventional wastewater treatment designs incorporate primary and secondary treatment processes to remove biological and chemical contaminates from treated effluents, an inclusion of a tertiary treatment stage (such as filtration, biological nutrient removal etc.)…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 78%
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“…Some of the isolates tested were found to carry genes conferring resistance to more than one class of antibiotic. Other studies [59,60] have reported similar findings in environmental isolates. Even though most conventional wastewater treatment designs incorporate primary and secondary treatment processes to remove biological and chemical contaminates from treated effluents, an inclusion of a tertiary treatment stage (such as filtration, biological nutrient removal etc.)…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…complied with the general limit permissible for discharged final effluent in South Africa. Similarly, other studies have reported the detection of Vibrio in discharged effluents in South Africa and have emphasized the possibility of their survival in the environment [57][58][59][60]. The lack of statistical correlation between the abundance of FIB and potentially pathogenic Vibrio species points at the feeble attempt to use indicator organisms as surrogates for pathogens in water systems [61][62][63], while more reliable pathogen detection technology such as molecular-based and next-generation sequencing techniques will give more accurate results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Müller et al (2001) have reported the presence of pathogenic E. coli in sewage-contaminated river water in South Africa while Momba et al (2006) also confirmed the presence of pathogens such as Salmonella, Shigella, V. cholerae and coliphages in final effluents of wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern Cape Province. Similar findings were reported by Igbinosa et al (2011a, b) and Okoh et al (2015) with respect to multidrug-resistant pathogenic vibrios in urban wastewater effluents. These pathogenic microbes have been implicated in human diseases linked with the use of faecalcontaminated water and food (Wose Kinge et al 2012).…”
Section: Infectious Disease Agentssupporting
confidence: 91%
“…The intensive use of antibiotics in medicine and in animal farming has been suggested to be the source of such resistance (34,35), and V. cholerae strains isolated from seawater have been shown to be antibiotic resistant (23,24). The data presented here provide the first report of antimicrobial susceptibility for non-O1/non-O139 V. cholerae from the Chesapeake Bay.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 74%