Journal
CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 288, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132510
Keywords
Aerobic granular sludge; Tetracycline; Granulation; Microbial community; Metabolic function
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Funding
- National Key Technology RD Program [2018YFD0800105]
- leading talent echelon reserve leader funding project of Heilongjiang Province of China
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20200775]
- University Malaysia Terengganu [UMT/CRIM/2-2/2/23 (23), Vot 55302]
- Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia under the Higher Institution Centre of Excellence (HICoE), Institute of Tropical Aquaculture and Fisheries (AKUATROP) program [63933, 56051, UMT/CRIM/2-2/5 Jilid 2 (10)]
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This study investigated the influence of high concentration tetracycline on the formation of aerobic granular sludge, showing that tetracycline can accelerate sludge granulation, induce microbial community succession, and increase the presence of tetracycline-degrading bacteria or antibiotic resistance genus.
Tetracycline is a potentially hazardous residual antibiotic detected in various sewages. High concentration (mg/L) of tetracycline is found in pharmaceutical/hospital wastewater and wastewater derived from livestock and poultry. So far, only antibiotics in mu g/L level have been reported in granulation of aerobic sludge during wastewater treatment, but its effects in high concentration are rarely reported. In this study, the influence of tetracycline in high concentration (similar to 2 mg/L) on the formation of granular sludge, structure, and metabolic function of the microbial community during the granulation of aerobic sludge was investigated to improve the understanding of the aerobic granular sludge formation under high-level of tetracycline. The role of extracellular polymers substances (EPSs) derived from granular sludge in the granulation and tetracycline removal process was also investigated, showing that tetracycline improved the relative hydrophobicity, flocculability and protein/polysaccharide ratio of EPSs, accelerating the granulation of sludge. Succession of microbial communities occurred during the domestication of functional bacteria present in the sludge and was accompanied with regulation of metabolic function. The addition of tetracycline lead to an increase of tetracycline-degrading bacteria or antibiotic resistance genus. Those findings provide new perspectives of the influence of tetracycline on aerobic sludge granulation and the removal mechanism of tetracycline.
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