Enzymatic Activity and Horizontal Gene Transfer of Heavy Metals and Antibiotic Resistant Proteus vulgaris from Hospital Wastewater: An Insight

Table 1

Correlation coefficient (R), slope, and residual mean square (RMS) values were obtained for the exponential decay model for hospital wastewater at different concentrations of metals.

Sites	Metals	R	Slope	RMS
1	Hg	0.377	−805.7	0.315765696
	Cd	0.672	−13430	0.315587972
	Co	0.693	−13636	0.304682265
	Ni	0.896	−13547	0.309583244
	Zn	0.682	−13470	0.399291110
	Cr	0.610	−14185	0.284863178
	Cu	0.883	−14251	0.038969882
2	Hg	0.383	−242.8	0.312361700
	Cd	0.548	−14968	0.303305862
	Co	0.846	−93786	0.406099135
	Ni	0.884	−25693	0.034904556
	Zn	0.621	−17268	0.210423823
	Cr	0.534	−15614	0.274040907
	Cu	0.916	−14918	0.016719939
3	Hg	0.377	−628.5	0.316530857
	Cd	0.759	−14671	0.405153449
	Co	0.658	−24644	0.103931115
	Ni	0.692	−14510	0.376696231
	Zn	0.606	−74177	0.392370443
	Cr	0.410	−14795	0.376008990
	Cu	0.594	−14468	0.432005013
4	Hg	0.376	−248.5	0.316005435
	Cd	0.686	−88086	0.395312693
	Co	0.674	−88132	0.419002505
	Ni	0.934	−89289	0.042191565
	Zn	0.743	−90571	0.400534444
	Cr	0.420	−90761	0.365269321
	Cu	0.621	−87379	0.436048750