Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring of Water Environments: A Framework for Standardized Methods and Quality Control

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a grand societal challenge with important dimensions in the water environment that contribute to its evolution and spread. Environmental monitoring could provide vital information for mitigating the spread of AMR; this includes assessing antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) circulating among human populations, identifying key hotspots for evolution and dissemination of resistance, informing epidemiological and human health risk assessment models, and quantifying removal efficiencies by domestic wastewater infrastructure. However, standardized methods for monitoring AMR in the water environment will be vital to producing the comparable data sets needed to address such questions.…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Award: OAC 2004751
• WR
  Water Research Foundation
• OO
  Office of International Science and Engineering

  Award: OIE 1545756
• DO
  Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

  Award: CBET 1936319