Our project aimed at investigating the applicability of high energy irradiation methods to eradicate any impact that
antibiotics have on microbial population in wastewater matrices. Over the course of our study, the effect of solutions
containing synthetic wastewater matrix along with antibiotics on a resistant -sensitive mixed bacterial population is
taken under scrutiny after electron beam irradiation. As a result, we show that by appropriately optimizing the dose
requirement, electron beam treatment appears to be a promising method to eliminate the biological activity of
antibiotics and thereby achieve similar microbial population dynamics as it is found without the presence of antibiotics.
Our results take us closer to our ultimate goal, developing technologies to tackle the evolution of antibiotic resistant
bacteria in water reservoirs contaminated with antibiotics
