Pathogenic Bacteria Are the Primary Determinants Shaping PM2.5-Borne Resistomes in the Municipal Food Waste Treatment System
Liangmao Zhang,
Binghan Wang,
Yinglong Su
et al.
Abstract:Bioaerosol pollution poses a substantial
threat to human health
during municipal food waste (FW) recycling. However, bioaerosol-borne
antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs) have received little attention.
Herein, 48 metagenomic data were applied to study the prevalence of
PM2.5-borne ARGs in and around full-scale food waste treatment
plants (FWTPs). Overall, FWTP PM2.5 (2.82 ± 1.47 copies/16S
rRNA gene) harbored comparable total abundance of ARGs to that of
municipal wastewater treatment plant PM2.5 (WWTP), but
was… Show more
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