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ReviewAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

The Role of Water as a Reservoir for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.

Sameh Meradji, Nosiba S Basher, Asma Sassi, Nasir Adam Ibrahim, Takfarinas Idres, Abdelaziz Touati

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Review in Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in surface waters: surveillance of enterococci and coliform bacteria in Slovakia.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sameh MeradjiFaculty of Nature and Life Sciences, Mohamed-Cherif Messaadia University, Souk Ahras 41000, Algeria.
Nosiba S BasherDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 13318, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8814-5957
Asma SassiLaboratory of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Badji Mokhtar University, Annaba 23000, Algeria.
Nasir Adam IbrahimDepartment of Biology, College of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh 13318, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6382-8807
Takfarinas IdresLaboratory for Livestock Animal Production and Health Research, Rabie Bouchama National Veterinary School of Algiers, Issad ABBAS Street, BP 161 Oued Smar, Algiers 16000, Algeria.ORCID 0000-0003-2519-4596
Abdelaziz TouatiLaboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne, Faculty of Nature and Life Sciences, Université de Bejaia, Bejaia 06000, Algeria.

Funding

Deanship of Scientific Research at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU) IMSIU-DDRSP2502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Water systems serve as multifaceted environmental pools for antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and resistance genes (ARGs), influencing human, animal, and ecosystem health. This review synthesizes current understanding of how antibiotics, ARB, and ARGs enter surface, ground, and drinking waters via wastewater discharge, agricultural runoff, hospital effluents, and urban stormwater. We highlight key mechanisms of biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, and co-selection by chemical stressors that facilitate persistence and spread. Case studies illustrate widespread detection of clinically meaningful ARB (e.g.,

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antibiotic resistance genesantibiotic-resistant bacteriaenvironmental pathways of transmissionspread mechanismswaterborne pathogens

Identifiers

PMID40867958
PMCPMC12382840

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