Abstract
This study aims to evaluate the bacteriological, chemical, and toxicological quality of hospital effluents in Benin. Eighteen (18) samples were collected from the south and north of Benin, and poles were set up. Bacteriological analysis was carried out according to the French National Organization for Standardization (AFNOR) standard. Identification of the bacterial species isolated was performed using the API 20E gallery and specific biochemical tests. Antibiotic residues were searched by following ELISA kit instructions. 109 bacterial isolates were obtained, with a predominance of non-enterobacteria (37.7%) and Acinetobacter spp. (24.6%), followed by Klebsiella spp. (11.48%); S. aureus and Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) were isolated at the same frequency (6.5%). Physico-chemical and toxicological parameter analyses showed that they were in conformity with the standards of discharge into the environment. The pH, temperature, electrical conductivity, total solids below, P-redox and suspended solids measured were, on average, 6.83, 27.21 °C, 693.68 µS/cm, 693.68 mg/l, 1.68 mV and 0.15 mg/l, respectively. For heavy metals, cadmium was most prevalent (0.22 mg/l), followed by nickel (0.18 mg/l) and lead (0.03 mg/l). The average antibiotic residue concentrations ranged from 0.043 to 7.65 µg/l. Ciprofloxacin, metronidazole and sulfamethoxazole had the highest residue concentrations of 7.65 ± 2.272 µg/l, 6.61 ± 0.051 µg/l and 3.88 ± 3.088 µg/l, respectively. The heavy metal concentrations obtained were below those required by Benin standards. These effluents therefore present health and environmental risks. It is then more than necessary to develop treatment methods for them before their rejection into the natural environment.
Article Highlights
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The study carried out made it possible to rule on the nature and quality of hospital effluents generated in the health structures in Benin. Physico-chemical parameters such as pH, temperature, electrical conductivity, total solids below, P-redox and suspended solids measured has been determined. The research of pathogenic bacteria as well as the research of heavy metals and antibiotic residues was done.
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Data were provided on the nature of the bacteria present in hospital effluents and their degree of pathogenicity. The types of heavy metals contained in the samples were reported and compared to the standards in force at the national and international level. The presence of antibiotic residues was evaluated and the most common ones were documented. The presence of residues of some specific antibiotics has confirmed their wide use in human therapeutics.
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The study raised awareness of the fact that untreated hospital effluent can enter the water table, end up in natural waterways and be the source of many environmental and health problems. The study highlighted the urgency of installing wastewater treatment plants for health facilities in Benin.
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1 Introduction
Water is an essential resource for life. It plays an important role in daily activities and needs (domestic, agricultural, industrial, artisanal, etc.). As a result of these uses, it can be contaminated by micropollutants that present potential environmental and health risks. Health care activities especially generate different types of waste, including effluents that are complex mixtures of chemical and biological substances that are continuously released. Hospital effluents generally come from all sections of health care facilities. In many develo** countries, they represent a significant source of emerging contaminants. These contaminants include heavy metals, antibiotic resistance genes, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic residues [1, 2]. contaminants can be discharged into various environments, such as rivers, lakes and seas, without prior treatment and can then accumulate [3]. The health risk of the discharge of hospital effluents can thus be well perceived since humans are in constant interaction with the environment. For many years, antibiotics have made it possible to fight effectively against pathogenic bacteria, which have today developed mechanisms of resistance to them. Excessive and abusive use has very quickly led to a dramatic increase in antibiotic resistance and the selection of multiresistant bacteria throughout the world [4]. The adverse effects of pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics in the environment have been reported in some studies [5]. Of most concern is the development of bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes, as this would lead to the transfer of these genes to microbial species normally sensitive to antibiotics. Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria have higher mortality and morbidity rates and directly result in longer hospitalizations [6]. It is estimated that these infections could cause 10 million deaths worldwide by 2050 [7]. The situation has worsened due to the presence of heavy metals in the environment. It has been demonstrated that the concentrations of heavy metals in the environment are associated with the levels of antimicrobial resistance genes [17]. Hospital effluents present characteristics of great variability that are a function of elements such as the size of hospitals, the number of beds, inpatients and outpatients, and the number and type of sections [18, 19]. The present study aims to assess the presence of antibiotiresistant bacteria, heavy metals, and antibiotic residues in hospital wastewaters in Benin. The bacteriological and chemical characterization of the effluents revealed the presence of micropollutants such as antibiotic residues but also a variety of bacterial species. These results are close to works in the literature that reported that liquid discharges from the hospital environment are highly loaded with chemical pollutants and pathogens and thus constitute a threat to the environment and health [20,21,22,23,24]. The physicochemical characterization of the effluents revealed that the values were in accordance with the standards for discharge to the environment. Our results are different from those of Iké et al. [24], who reported that apart from temperature, all values are above Nigerian regulatory standards for wastewater discharge to the environment. The average temperature and pH values of the effluents are in line with Beninese standards for liquid waste discharge, which call for a temperature of 30 °C and a pH between 6 and 9 for domestic wastewater. Indeed, in Benin, no standards exist for parameters related to hospital effluents. Temperature plays an important role in the solubility of salts and gases and the determination of pH. It also acts as a physiological factor in the metabolism of microorganisms living in water. In this study, the temperature ranged from 25.8 to 28.8 °C with an average of 27.21 °C, which is in line with the international standard established by the WHO, [25] that set the maximum value at 30 °C. Todedji et al. [26] obtained temperatures ranging from 18.6 to 30.2 °C with an average of 24.52 °C in a study on effluents from a university hospital in Benin. The temperature found by Sadek et al. [20] in the effluent of Sidi Kacen Provincial Hospital was 19.8 °C, and that found by Tahiri et al. [27] was 17.11 °C.
The study conducted by Bouzid et al. [21] at Mohamed V Hospital in Meknes, Morocco reported a temperature between 19.4 and 20.4 °C. The pH values of the effluent ranged from 5.85 to 7.11. This is consistent with WHO [25] standards between 6.5 and 8.5 and the results obtained in several studies [20, 21, 26, 28]. Electrical conductivity, salinity and total dissolved solids are indicators of mineral pollution in wastewater. Electrical conductivity estimates overall mineralization and total soluble salts in water and is one of the simplest and most important indicators for monitoring hospital effluent quality [14]. Electrical conductivity values ranged from 154 to 1687 μS/cm. The values obtained in most samples remain below the WHO. [25] lower limit of 2000 μS/cm. Values higher than ours have been reported [20, 26]. Since water with an electrical conductivity between 600 and 1000 μS/cm is considered highly mineralized [14], the analyzed effluents in this study are highly mineralized. Salinity follows the same trend as electrical conductivity. Indeed, salinity values vary between 0 and 0.8 with an average of 0.35. This was further verified by the fact that the sites where the highest values were recorded for conductivity were the same for salinity (HZ Dassa-Zoumè and CNHU). A positive value of the redox potential of water reflects its oxidizing power. The average value of P-redox is 1.68 mV, and it can be concluded that in general, the effluents of this study have oxidizing power. Hospital effluents contain a great variability of pathogens. A high percentage of nonenterobacteria (22.05%) was recorded. According to morphology, gram-negative bacilli were also found with the presence of Acinetobacter baumanii, followed by Klebsiella spp., E. coli, K. pneumoniae, and Yersinia enterolica. This preponderance of gram-negative bacilli was reported by Guessennd et al. [29]. S. aureus and CoNS were isolated at a frequency of 6.5%. This frequency is much lower than the result of Guessennd et al. [30], which was 100%. Our results are related to those of several studies carried out in Africa (Benin, Morocco) and in Europe (Spain, France), in which the authors have also highlighted a bacterial flora of hospital effluents with the presence of gram-negative bacteria belonging to the Enterobacteria family [30,31,32] and, to a lesser extent, Staphylococci [33].
Various antibiotic residues were detected in the effluent samples. Aquatic organisms are therefore exposed to cocktails of residues if these effluents reach the water table. Even if their individual concentrations measured in the environment are low, when combined, they can be significant and cause significant toxicity to aquatic organisms by interacting with each other and having either a significant effect (synergistic effect) [34]. In this study, different antibiotic residues were sought in effluent samples. This may be due to the wider use of antibiotic molecules in hospitals than elsewhere. Metronidazole, ciprofloxacin, chloramphenicol and sulfamethoxazole were the most frequently detected in effluents at high concentrations. The average residue concentrations ranged from 0.043 to 7.65 µg/l, with the maximum value recorded for metronidazole. This could be explained by the frequent use of these molecules but also by their low biodegradation in the environment. The concentrations found are highly variable in relation to variations in consumption patterns (type of antibiotic and quantity) and to the persistence of the different compounds disseminated [35]. On the other hand, the conditions of the receiving environments and the intrinsic chemical characteristics of the molecules condition their persistence [36]. Therefore, the study of processes governing persistence, such as sorption, mobility and degradation of antibiotics, is an essential step. The most important mechanisms conditioning sorption and thus mobility of antibiotic compounds are interactions with organic matter and mineral constituents in the soil, as well as ion exchange, hydrogen bonding, and complex formation with metal ions [37]. In addition, the lack of sanitation and wastewater treatment facilities in low-income countries means that the average concentration of antibiotic residues is generally significantly higher. Metronidazole is an example of a widely empirically used first-time treatment in many African countries [38]. Against various protozoan parasites and anaerobic bacteria, it is an effective antimicrobial drug [39]. The mean concentration of metronidazole was 6.62 µg/l in hospital effluents. Indeed, this antibiotic is wrongly considered more as an antiparasitic than an antibiotic by the population. The metronidazole concentrations found in this study are much higher than those obtained in the effluents of the G-point CHU by Levy et al. [40] (0.15 µg/l) and Maiga et al. [41] in Bamako (0.02 µg/l). Ciprofloxacin, one of the most potent antibiotics at low concentrations, was also concentrated in effluents (7.63 µg/l). These results are similar to those obtained in France by Andreozzi et al. [42], in Italy by Miao et al. [43]. in Canada, TamTam et al. [44] and Kouadio et al. [45] in Côte-d'Ivoire. Our results are different from those reported by Maiga et al. [41] in Mali, which makes the case of the nondetection of this molecule in hospital effluents. Chloramphenicol, despite its detection limit of approximately 0.05 µg/l, was detected and quantified in hospital effluents at concentrations of approximately 0.1 µg/l in the present study. These results are not corroborated by those of Maiga et al. [41], who reported the nondetection of chloramphenicol in hospital effluents. Indeed, this antibiotic has been withdrawn from the Malian market for a few years because of its toxicity to blood cells and bone marrow. Amoxicillin was not detected in hospital effluents. This result is different from that of Maiga et al. [41], who reported the detection of amoxicillin in hospital effluents at concentrations on the order of 0.066 µg/l. The northern samples recorded the highest concentrations of ampicillin at an average concentration of 1.90 µg/l. These results are different from those of Christian et al. [46] who obtained concentrations on the order of ng/l. Sulfamethozaxole is a widely used antibiotic for the treatment of diseases in humans and animals and is one of the antibiotics commonly detected in wastewater treatment plant processes (WWTPs) [47, 48]. In the present study, sulfamethozaxole was also detected in hospital effluents. It has been shown that low-cost antibiotics, such as sulfamethozaxole and trimetoprim, seem to be more frequently observed and at higher concentrations in develo** countries [49]. This can also be due to their persistence and poor elimination in the effluents [50, 51]. The results in the present study are superior to the 0.06 µg/l obtained by Maiga et al. [40] in effluents in Mali. Values ranging from 0.04 to 0.162 µg/l were found by Kouadio et al. [45], TamTam et al. [44], and Andreozzi et al. [41] for cotrimoxazole, a combination molecule of sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim. The three heavy metals, namely, lead, cadmium and nickel, investigated in this study were all present in varying concentrations. The presence of heavy metals in hospital effluents is related to the presence of iodinated contrast agents used for radiography, certain drugs and their metabolites that may contain organohalogen elements, the use of disinfectants, detergents, and chlorinated solvents, as well as other substances from laboratories [26]. A predominance of cadmium (0.22 mg/l) followed by nickel (0.18 mg/l) and lead (0.03 mg/l) was observed. This predominance of cadmium could be due to cleaning activities that involve the use of large volumes of detergents, the use of dye products when refurbishing treatment rooms, and the lack of pretreatment of effluents at the department level before their discharge into septic tanks [26]. Metal concentrations in hospital effluents vary at each hospital. While the different concentrations obtained for these metals all complied with Beninese standards for discharge into the environment (1 mg/l for cadmium and lead and 2.5 mg/l for nickel), this was not the case in comparison with WHO standards. Indeed, for cadmium, all the concentrations obtained were higher than the WHO standard of 0.01 mg/l, with a maximum value recorded at the HZ of Savè (0.64 mg/l). For lead, all the concentrations obtained conformed to the WHO standard, which is 5 mg/l.
It should be noted that although data exist on the presence of resistant bacteria and heavy metals, this is the first time that a study has provided national data on the presence of these pollutants in Benin. In addition, this is one of the first studies in Benin to show the presence of antibiotic residues in hospital effluents. As a pioneering study, this work opens up many research perspectives to investigate the link between the most commonly used antibiotics in Benin, the presence of antibiotic residues and resistant bacteria in hospital effluents and the resultant role of these chemical and biological pollutants in the spread of antimicrobial resistance. This study is supported by the One Health approach, which highlights the link between environmental and human health, through the massive use of antibiotics in human health and their diffusion in the environment.
5 Conclusion
Effluents generated by hospital activities can present a potential danger for humans and the environment. The physico-chemical parameters of the effluents in this study conformed with the accepted standards in Benin. Various bacterial strains were isolated with a wide range of gram-negative bacilli. Antibiotic residues were also detected in variable concentrations in these effluents. These results can be explained by hospital practices and the lack of adequate treatment of these effluents. The concentrations of heavy metals obtained in the hospital effluents were below those required by Benin standards. The lack of systematic treatment of this wastewater before disposal exposes real health and environmental risks, given by the nature and content of the pollutants that can be found in effluents. It is therefore imperative and necessary to develop treatment methods for these effluents before their discharge into the natural environment.
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The authors are very grateful to The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB), which funded one of them for this study. They also thank the L’OREAL FOUNDATION for giving the Young Talents Prize to the first author. They are finally grateful to the Minister of the Living Environment and Sustainable Development in Benin, his Excellency his Excellency M. José TONATO and all his staff.
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The authors are very grateful to The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the Islamic Development Bank (ISDB). These two institutions have made this research possible through research funding allocated to the research team under the IsDB-TWAS Grants for Research Collaboration in Sustainability Sciences (Grant No. 506808). They reviewed the research protocol and validated the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. The authors are also grateful to The L’OREAL FOUNDATION, which provided the YOUNG TALENTS 2021 Prize to one of the authors (Dr Esther DEGUENON).
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ED, VD, VMCH, JRK, WM, CL and MB wrote the protocol. ED, VMCH, WM got the funding. ED, VD, JRK, VMCH, EG, RAA, CL and KF processed the samples. ED, VD, JRK, JA and FT performed the statistical analyses. ED, VD, EG, JRK wrote the draft of the manuscript. VD, JRK, MB and HB reviewed the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Deguenon, E., Dougnon, V., Houssou, V.M.C. et al. Hospital effluents as sources of antibiotics residues, resistant bacteria and heavy metals in Benin. SN Appl. Sci. 4, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05095-9
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