, hormones, and other pharmaceutically active compounds. Perhaps most significantly, high concentrations of antibiotics in the effluent can favor the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria .
The transfer of these ARGs between bacteria is the mechanism that drives the evolution of antibiotic resistance, making their presence in hospital wastewater a major concern forVenieri explained,"ARGs have only recently become the focus of research activity simply because researchers ignored the implications of their existence, if not their existence as such.
The concentration of target contaminants and pollutants in hospital wastewater is below a threshold. This was found to be the case in the current work.
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