Journal of hazardous materialsEnterococcusDrug ResistanceMultipleBacterialHumans
Urban trash bins as reservoirs of multidrug-resistant Enterococcus with shared resistance genes across clinical and environmental niches.
Jie Li, Xiaorui Mao, Yu Song, Xiaohe Hu, Guoping Zhao, Biao Tang
Published: 202510.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.140064
Abstract
Environmental reservoirs of antimicrobial-resistance genes (ARGs) are increasingly implicated in the spread of multidrug-resistant pathogens, yet urban trash bins remain largely unexplored. To address this gap, we sampled 254 public trash bin surface…
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