In a recent article published in the Communications Biology Journal, researchers in Sweden found new evidence favoring the hypothesis that wastewaters and wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) presented a feasible environment for mobilizing antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the past. They also raised concerns that the mobilization of additional ARGs could also occur in wastewaters and WWTPs in the future. Study: Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge. Image Credit:rhendrix/Shutterstock.com Background Studies have found links between almost all identified ARGs-origin species and infections in humans and animals. So, earlier researchers believed their corresponding ARGs also originated in...