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ArticleOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2026

From biowastes to risks? Impact of biosolids treatment and dose on antibiotic resistance in agricultural soils - A mesocosm study.

Georgios Giannopoulos, Dimitrios Pilalas, Georgia D Mandilara, Charalampos Kotzamanidis, Ioannis Anastopoulos, Esmeralda Dushku, Vasileios A Tzanakakis, Alexios N Polidoros, Vassilis Aschonitis, George Arampatzis

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Article in One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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10 authors.

Georgios GiannopoulosSchool of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Dimitrios PilalasThird Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou General Hospital, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 56429 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgia D MandilaraInfectious Disease Surveillance, Unit of Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, 11521 Athens, Greece.
Charalampos KotzamanidisVeterinary Research Institute (VRI), Hellenic Agricultural Organization - DIMITRA, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ioannis AnastopoulosDepartment of Agriculture, UoI Kostakii Campus, University of Ioannina, 47100 Arta, Greece.
Esmeralda DushkuVeterinary Research Institute (VRI), Hellenic Agricultural Organization - DIMITRA, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vasileios A TzanakakisDepartment of Agriculture, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 71410 Heraklion, Greece.
Alexios N PolidorosSchool of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vassilis AschonitisSoil and Water Resources Institute (SWRI), Hellenic Agricultural Organization (HAO) - DIMITRA, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.
George ArampatzisSoil and Water Resources Institute (SWRI), Hellenic Agricultural Organization (HAO) - DIMITRA, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biosolids application to farmlands enhances soil fertility and promotes sustainable agriculture; yet it is vital to co-evaluate the interconnected risk of spreading antibiotic resistance throughout the agri-food sector. The impacts of sewage sludge treatments (dewatered, air-dried, limed, and thermally dried) and application rates (1-3%) on the abundance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance indices (ARI) in biosolids and biosolid-amended agricultural soils were tested. Thermal drying markedly reduced total heterotrophic and antibiotic-resistant bacterial abundance by nearly 5 log₁₀ units, resulting in the lowest ARI across multiple antibiotic classes, including ciprofloxacin and neomycin. Liming also effectively lowered some resistance indices through pH elevation and ammonia volatilization. Soil mesocosm experiments with 1-3% (

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Agricultural soilsAntibiotic resistant bacteriaAntimicrobial resistanceBiosolidsDose-effectsOne HealthSewage sludge treatment

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