Widespread Antibiotic, Biocide, and Metal Resistance in Microbial Communities Inhabiting a Municipal Waste Environment and Anthropogenically Impacted River.

ABSTRACT: The Riverton City dump is Jamaica's largest solid waste disposal site, but it lacks engineered protection for leachate containment and treatment. Shotgun metagenomics was used to survey the microbial communities in the Riverton City dump leachate and in surface waters of the Duhaney River, an urban waterway abutting the dump. The community within the leachate pond was taxonomically distinct from that found in the surface waters of the Duhaney River. Higher microbial diversity was observed within the dump leachate, with members of the Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Gammaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria, and Tenericutes being the most abundant, while the river community was dominated by Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, and Gammaprote

SUBMITTER: Collins-Fairclough AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6158514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature