Resistome profiling and bacterial community structure of semi-urban gutter ecosystems of India.

ABSTRACT: Environmental factors contribute to antimicrobial resistance, a global health threat. Contaminated gutter water in urban areas spreads resistant bacteria, disrupting ecosystems and promoting biofilm formation, causing widespread concern. This study aimed to evaluate antibiotic-resistant bacterial populations across six gutter ecosystems in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India during summer against different classes of antibiotics, identify presence of beta-lactamase, and explores total bacterial communities, and predicting metabolic pathways through 16S rRNA based metagenomic approach of V3 region. The highest resistant bacterial population was found in HL_NS-6, and HL_NS-2, with highly resistance to Penicillin (ampicillin and oxacillin), Cephalosporin (Cephalothin), aminoglycoside (Kanamycin), flu

SUBMITTER: Adhikary R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12578944 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature