Mass-immigration shapes the antibiotic resistome of wastewater treatment plants
L. Zhang, B. Adyari, L. Hou, X. Yang, M. Gad, Y. Wang, C. Ma, Q. Sun, Q. Tang, Y. Zhang, C.-P. Yu, A. Hu
The paper monitors antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants and finds that mass-immigration of bacteria and ARGs from upstream units shapes ARG communities, with stochastic processes dominating their assembly.
bioRxiv · Feb 27, 2023Microbiology