Urban metagenomics uncover antibiotic resistance reservoirs in coastal beach and sewage waters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Microbial communities present in environmental waters constitute a reservoir for antibiotic-resistant pathogens that impact human health. For this reason, a diverse variety of water environments are being analyzed using metagenomics to uncover public health threats. However, the composition of these communities along the coastal environment of a whole city, where sewage and beach waters are mixed, is poorly understood.

Results

We shotgun-sequenced 20 coastal areas from the city of Montevideo (capital of Uruguay) including beach and sewage water samples to characterize bacterial communities and their virulence and antibiotic resistance repertories. As expected, we found that sewage and beach environments present significantly different bacterial communities. This b

SUBMITTER: Fresia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6396544 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature