Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” capable of resisting last-resort treatment have been found for the first time in Los Angeles County wastewater.
“We should be wary of this increase in antibiotic resistance in the community, and it could be spreading,” Smith said. “It's something that we need to start thinking about more, because some of these antibiotic stewardship programs kind of took a backseat during the pandemic, for good reason.”The first in time in L.A.
Smith said he began sampling wastewater from two local treatment plants in early 2020, initially monitoring for COVID-19. He began this particular study in September of that year. The colistin-resistant pathogens emerged soon after. “I think this discovery shows … that wastewater surveillance is a very real type of surveillance that public health can do … to look at what organisms are circulating among the GI tracts of the humans in our jurisdiction,” said Dawn Terashita, associate director for the Acute Communicable Disease Control Program with L.A. County’s public health department.
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