期刊
WATER RESEARCH
卷 202, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117384
关键词
Activated sludge; Antibiotic resistance genes; Machine learning; Random forests; Wastewater treatment plants
资金
- National Science Foundation [CBET-1351676, CBET-1805990]
- Nebraska Research Initiative
This study explores using a machine learning approach, random forests (RF's), to identify the associations between antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and bacterial taxa in activated sludge of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The results show that RF's can successfully predict the abundance of select ARGs, with (opportunistic) pathogens and indicator bacteria having more positive functional relationships. Machine learning approaches like RF's have the potential to identify bacterial hosts of ARGs and reveal functional relationships in WWTPs.
While the microbiome of activated sludge (AS) in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) plays a vital role in shaping the resistome, identifying the potential bacterial hosts of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in WWTPs remains challenging. The objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a machine learning approach, random forests (RF's), to identify the strength of associations between ARGs and bacterial taxa in metagenomic datasets from the activated sludge of WWTPs. Our results show that the abundance of select ARGs can be predicted by RF's using abundant genera (Candidatus Accumulibacter, Dechloromonas, Pesudomonas, and Thauera, etc.), (opportunistic) pathogens and indicators (Bacteroides, Clostridium, and Streptococcus, etc.), and nitrifiers (Nitrosomonas and Nitrospira, etc.) as explanatory variables. The correlations between predicted and observed abundance of ARGs (erm(B), tet(O), tet(Q), etc.) ranged from medium (0.400 < R2 0.600) to strong (R2 0.600) when validated on testing datasets. Compared to those belonging to the other two groups, individual genera in the group of (opportunistic) pathogens and indicator bacteria had more positive functional relationships with select ARGs, suggesting genera in this group (e.g., Bacteroides, Clostridium, and Streptococcus) may be hosts of select ARGs. Furthermore, RF's with (opportunistic) pathogens and indicators as explanatory variables were used to predict the abundance of select ARGs in a full-scale WWTP successfully. Machine learning approaches such as RF's can potentially identify bacterial hosts of ARGs and reveal possible functional relationships between the ARGs and microbial community in the AS of WWTPs.
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