Anti-Microbial Resistant Bacteria and Water Environment

Antibiotic Resistance and Water Environment

Backgrounds

At the G20 health ministers meeting (May 2017), antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was raised as important for the international agenda. AMR is not only a major threat to the global health, but also our future economies. More than 700,000 people worldwide are already dying each year because of AMR agents. While the relative role of the environment is unclear at this stage, an important first step is to identify hotspots of AMR spread and human exposure, and explore (model) possible benefits of actions to cut/reduce the load of AMR agents into environmental compartments.

Research Objectives

The horizontal transfer efficiency of antibiotic resistance gene in water environments

Research Articles

1. Understanding human health risks caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water environments: Current knowledge and questions to be answered
   Mohan Amarasiri, Daisuke Sano, Satoru Suzuki
   Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, accepted.

Invited speech

1. Quantification of human health risks caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water environments: Future research directions
   Mohan Amarasiri
   The 6th Environmental Technology and Management Conference
   Prime Plaza Hotel, Sanur, Bali (Nov. 5-7, 2019)

Presentations

1. Extracellular antibiotic resistance gene decay by free chlorine treatment
   Mohan Amarasiri, Chihiro Konuma and Daisuke Sano
   20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology
   Sep 15-20, 2019, Vienna, Austria

Honors

1. 20th IWA Symposium on Health Related Water Microbiology Poster Award
   Extracellular antibiotic resistance gene decay by free chlorine treatment
   Mohan Amarasiri, Chihiro Konuma and Daisuke Sano