{"id":863,"date":"2022-05-17T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/?p=863"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:39:19","slug":"heavy-metal-pollution-can-increase-antibiotic-resistance-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/2022\/05\/17\/heavy-metal-pollution-can-increase-antibiotic-resistance-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy metal pollution can increase antibiotic resistance in rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We want to publicise a recent\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fabs%2Fpii%2FS0269749122005401%3Fdgcid%3Dcoauthor&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cmyra.giesen%40newcastle.ac.uk%7Ce9e7877abb2e4f92716508da3807a4fc%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883902717528353%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=f6pTnkBeh3YT4bUVuhFSvUjcyTWDFXbjh9Cnum9Kvtc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">publication<\/a>\u00a0in the journal\u00a0<em>Environmental Pollution<\/em>\u00a0on research by Newcastle University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi that quantified antibiotic and metal resistance in sediments from the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in India and streams in the River Tyne catchment. The results show heavy metals, which are high in the River Tyne catchment due to historic mining and industrial activity, relate to antibiotic resistance levels in the river. The same was seen in the Indian rivers, especially in areas of industrial activity. See the Newcastle University Press Release on this work\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/press\/articles\/latest\/2022\/05\/heavymetalpollutionamr\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Graham introduced the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fepha.org%2Finvestigating-the-environmental-dimensions-of-amr%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cmyra.giesen%40newcastle.ac.uk%7Ce9e7877abb2e4f92716508da3807a4fc%7C9c5012c9b61644c2a91766814fbe3e87%7C1%7C0%7C637883902717528353%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LcbgTzceisV1SWSc04q5g%2BV8miHn%2B%2ByI5UYUsoMEAg8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Meeting<\/a>\u00a0of the Members of the European Parliament (MEP) Interest Group on AMR on 17 May 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to publicise a recent\u00a0publication\u00a0in the journal\u00a0Environmental Pollution\u00a0on research by Newcastle University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi that quantified antibiotic and metal resistance in sediments from the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in India and streams in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/2022\/05\/17\/heavy-metal-pollution-can-increase-antibiotic-resistance-in-rivers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[5,7,89,39,48],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication","category-webinar","tag-amr","tag-antibiotic-resistance","tag-heavy-metal","tag-pollution","tag-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":864,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/grahamr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}