Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 823, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153822
Keywords
ARGs; Urbanization; Source tracking; Machine learning; Microbiome
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [U1805244, 41807460, 41977210, 42021005]
- Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (RESAS)
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This study assessed antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistome in water samples along the Jiulong River basin, revealing a decrease in resistome abundance with increasing distance from urban areas, and a positive correlation between resistome abundance and city size.
With growing concerns about antibiotic resistance, the tracking of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in urban waterways will facilitate our increased understanding of the impact of urbanization on ARGs dissemination. In the current study, we assessed the ARGs profiles and antibiotic resistome in water samples along the Jiulong River basin, a distance of 250 km, to better understand the impact of anthropogenic activities. A total of 244 ARGs and 12 MGEs were detected from 21 sampling sites. Both relative and absolute abundance of the observed resistome decreased with increasing distance from urban areas. Ordinary least-squares (OLS) regression revealed that both the relative and absolute resistome abundance were positively correlated with city size. The resistome had several inputs and outputs and Fast Expectation Maximization Microbial Source Tracking (FEAST), suggested that the majority of the antibiotic resistome originated from anthropogenic activities. A total of 8 ARGs and 20 microbial OTUs were considered as biomarkers that differentiated the location of sampling sites. Bacterial communities were significantly correlated with ARGs according to Procrustes analysis and Mantel test, which was also supported by a co-occurrence network. Variation partitioning analysis revealed that ARG profiles were driven by multiple factors. Although antibiotic resistome abundance significantly increased near urban conurbations, overall resistome abundance decreased as the river flowed downstream. Our study highlights the effect of conurbation size on antibiotic resistance profiles within the river basin and the potential resilience of rivers to recover from ARGs contamination.
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