Hyderabad, March 21 -- Researchers from the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and partner institutions have published a landmark study in Nature Communications providing the first comprehensive antimicrobial resistance (AMR) map in Indian urban wastewater, a release said.

Beyond identifying threats, the researchers propose that wastewater-based pathogen surveillance be used more widely in the country. They have provided a practical path forward for public health despite the infrastructural challenges in various regions of the country, according to the release from CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB).

The reseachers utilised a shotgun metagenomics approach that looks into the details of bacterial gen...