Localized effect of treated wastewater effluent on the resistome of an urban watershed.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wastewater treatment is an essential tool for maintaining water quality in urban environments. While the treatment of wastewater can remove most bacterial cells, some will inevitably survive treatment to be released into natural environments. Previous studies have investigated antibiotic resistance within wastewater treatment plants, but few studies have explored how a river's complete set of antibiotic resistance genes (the "resistome") is affected by the release of treated effluent into surface waters.

Results

Here we used high-throughput, deep metagenomic sequencing to investigate the effect of treated wastewater effluent on the resistome of an urban river and the downstream distribution of effluent-associated antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elem

SUBMITTER: Thornton CN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7677451 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature