Screening and potential of the incidence of resistance transfer among the multidrug and heavy metal resistant Gram negative isolates from hospital effluents of northern India.

Conclusion: We can recommend that the hospital water is heavily polluted with several types of antibiotics, toxic metals as well as the potentially hazardous bacterial flora because of their capacity to resist one or the other well known antibiotic and chemotherapeutic agents. These studies provide evidence that a wide variety of clinically important antibiotic and metal resistance genes are mobile within aquatic bacterial communities one step ahead of the above, we can envisage the alarming situation prevailing in our system and surrounding in the light of transmissible nature of R-plasmids. PMID: 29984669 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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