Seasonal distribution of human-to-human pathogens in airborne PM_2.5 and their potential high-risk ARGs.

ABSTRACT: Airborne microorganisms, an emerging global health threat, have attracted extensive studies. However, few attentions have been paid to the seasonal distribution of airborne pathogens, in particular their associations with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). To this end, two-week daily PM_2.5 samples were consecutively collected from Nanchang in four seasons, and the human-to-human pathogens were screened based on high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that there were 20 pathogenic taxa in PM_2.5 in Nanchang, and the highest relative abundance of pathogens was observed in winter (5.84%), followed by summer (3.51%), autumn (2.66%), and spring (1.80%). Although more than half of pathogenic taxa were shared by the four seasons, the analysis of similarities showed th

SUBMITTER: Zuo Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11254772 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature