Metagenomic Antibiotic Resistance Genes - Wiley Online Library

Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analyses reveal that biobed systems can enrich for antibiotic resistance and genetic mobility genes

Abstract Intuitive gene pollution in the environment has been identified as a potential contributor to the global epidemic of antibiotic resistance, triggering the need to identify and categorize environmental reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes. Although this has never been investigated extensively, many polluted environments have been shown to contain elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes, agriculturally based pesticide bioremediation methods labelled "biobeds" may act as environmental reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes, although industrially based pesticide bioremediation products have never been extensively investigated.

Source link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lam.13714

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