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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 737, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139563
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- Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
- European Union Regional Development Fund
- Province of Fryslan
- Northern Netherlands Provinces
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [665874]
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Manure application can spread antimicrobial resistance (AMR) from manure to soil and surface water. This study evaluated the role of the soil texture on the dynamics of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in soils and surrounding surface waters. Six dairy farms with distinct soil textures (clay, sand, and peat) were sampled at different time points after the application of manure, and three representative ARGs sul1, erm(B), and tet(W) were quantified with qPCR. Manuring initially increased levels of erm(B) by 1.5 +/- 0.5 log copies/kg of soil and tet (W) by 0.8 +/- 0.4 log copies/kg across soil textures, after which levels gradually declined. In surface waters from clay environments, regardless of the ARG, the gene levels initially increased by 2.6 +/- 1.6 log copies/L, after which levels gradually declined. The gene decay in soils was strongly dependent on the type of ARG (erm (B) b tet(W) b sul1; half-lives of 7, 11, and 75 days, respectively), while in water, the decay was primarily dependent on the soil texture adjacent to the sampled surface water (clay b peat b sand; half-lives of 2, 6, and 10 days, respectively). Finally, recovery of ARG levels was predicted after 29-42 days. The results thus showed that there was not a complete restoration of ARGs in soils between rounds of manure application. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that rather than showing similar dynamics of decay, factors such as the type of ARGand soil texture drive the ARG persistence in the environment. (c) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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