Hospital sewers may be breeding grounds for dangerous superbugs, study finds

Researchers at Nature Communications published a study examining antibiotic resistance in hospital wastewater. The study found that E. coli bacteria isolated from hospital sewer pipes showed three times greater antibiotic resistance compared to bacteria in the wastewater itself. The researchers attributed this difference to the conditions within the sewer pipes that favor the survival and growth of resistant strains.

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