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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 2643-2650Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es404988k
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- Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences (ICTAS) at Virginia Tech [TSTS 11-26]
- NSF EEC REU [1156688]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1402346] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1402651] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Engineering Education and Centers
- Directorate For Engineering [1156688] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The development of models for understanding antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) persistence and transport is a critical next step toward informing mitigation strategies to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance in the environment. A field study was performed that used a mass balance approach to gain insight into the transport and dissipation of ARGs following land application of manure. Soil from a small drainage plot including a manure application site, an unmanured control site, and an adjacent stream and buffer zone were sampled for ARGs and metals before and after application of dairy manure slurry and a dry stack mixture of equine, bovine, and ovine manure. Results of mass balance suggest growth of bacterial hosts containing ARGs and/or horizontal gene transfer immediately following slurry application with respect to ermF, sul1, and sul2 and following a lag (13 days) for dry-stack-amended soils. Generally no effects on tet(G), tet(O), or tet(W) soil concentrations were observed despite the presence of these genes in applied manure. Dissipation rates were fastest for ermF in slurry-treated soils (logarithmic decay coefficient of -3.5) and for sul1 and sul2 in dry-stack-amended soils (logarithmic decay coefficients of -0.54 and -0.48, respectively), and evidence for surface and subsurface transport was not observed. Results provide a mass balance approach for tracking ARG fate and insights to inform modeling and limiting the transport of manure-borne ARGs to neighboring surface water.
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