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WATER RESEARCH
卷 207, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117834
关键词
Advanced biological wastewater treatment system; Selective pressure; ARGs; Bacterial diversity; Plants; Vertical transfer
资金
- National Key R & D Program of China [2019YFC1906404]
- Singapore National Research Foun-dation (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Techno-logical Enterprise (CREATE) program
Planted ABWWTS demonstrated high removal efficiency of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in effluents under long-term exposure to sub-MIC tetracycline, while also showing an increase in ARGs within the system.
Effluents of conventional wastewater treatment systems contain antibiotic residues at concentrations below the minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC), which nevertheless could still select for antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This work focuses on evaluating the changes of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and bacterial communities in a planted advanced biological wastewater treatment system (ABWWTS) under long-term exposure to sub-MIC tetracycline. In the ABWWTS, the removal rates of tetracycline ranged from 97.9% to 99.9%, and a 17.2% decrease in the average removal rates of NH4+-N was observed after the addition of tetracycline. Although the background of ABWWTS contributed to the ARGs in effluents, the concentration of 283 targeted ARGs (Sigma ARGs) was 83.5% lower in effluents than in influents after sub-MIC tetracycline exposure, and the concentrations of Sigma ARGs in the ABWWTS were, on average, 30.0% lower than those in an unplanted biological wastewater treatment system (UBWWTS) after a performance of 130 days. The relative abundance of tetracycline resistance genes increased within ABWWTS and UBWWTS under tetracycline exposure. After tetracycline exposure, bacterial diversity in ABWWTS and UBWWTS increased on average by 36.2% and 42.7%, respectively, and the abundances of Nitrosomonas and Nitrospira in the aerobic zone were more than 10-times higher in the ABWWTS than in the UBWWTS. Sub-MIC tetracycline concentrations were linearly correlated with the relative abundance of tetracycline resistance genes in Escherichia coli (E. coli). Long-term exposure to tetracycline at the same concentration increased abundances of the same ARGs (i.e., tetR-02 and tetM-01) in E. coli and the microflora of the ABWWTS, revealing that sub-MIC tetracycline could increase the abundance of ARGs in the ABWWTS by facilitating the vertical transfer of tetracycline resistance genes. These findings demonstrated that planted ABWWTS played a positive role in removing ARGs under low antibiotic selective pressure, which was in accompany with increasing levels of corresponding ARGs within the system.
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