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ArticleNature communications2026

Wastewater surveillance reveals patterns of antibiotic resistance across the United States.

Sooyeol Kim, Alessandro Zulli, Elana M G Chan, Dorothea Duong, Rebecca Y Linfield, Caroline E M McCormack, Bradley J White, Marlene K Wolfe, Alexandria B Boehm, Amy J Pickering

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sooyeol KimDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3321-7241
Alessandro ZulliDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Elana M G ChanDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7238-6833
Dorothea DuongVerily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Rebecca Y LinfieldDivision of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8079-700X
Caroline E M McCormackDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0009-0000-4917-8836
Bradley J WhiteVerily Life Sciences, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6444-4159
Marlene K WolfeGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Alexandria B BoehmDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8162-5090
Amy J PickeringDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. pickering@berkeley.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6193-2221

Funding

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007502 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Prasanna Jagannathan, DAVID A. RELMAN · 1995 to 2026
$6.8M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health threat, with over 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections and 35,000 attributable deaths annually in the U.S. Here, we sought to use wastewater monitoring to assess community-level burden of antibiotic resistance. This study quantifies concentrations of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) by digital droplet PCR in wastewater solids obtained from 163 wastewater treatment plants in 40 states in the United States. We measure 11 ARGs that confer resistance to beta-lactams (bla

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Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaDrug Resistance, BacterialDrug Resistance, MicrobialWastewaterGenes, BacterialHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsUnited StatesAnti-Bacterial AgentsWastewater

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PMID41917019
PMCPMC13201604

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