Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors Shape the Snow Microbiome and Antibiotic Resistome.

ABSTRACT: Winter tourism can generate environmental pollution and affect microbial ecology in mountain ecosystems. This could stimulate the development of antibiotic resistance in snow and its dissemination through the atmosphere and through snow melting. Despite these potential impacts, the effect of winter tourism on the snow antibiotic resistome remains to be elucidated. In this study, snow samples subjected to different levels of anthropogenic activities and surrounding forest were obtained from the Sudety Mountains in Poland to evaluate the impact of winter tourism on snow bacteria using a metagenomic approach. Bacterial community composition was determined by the sequencing of the V3-V4 hypervariable region of the 16S rRNA gene and the composition of the antibiotic resistome was explored by me

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Cid C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9245712 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature