Metagenomic Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Untreated Wastewater From Three Different Hospitals.

ABSTRACT: Controlling antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is a worldwide intervention to ensure global health. Hospital wastewater is the main pollution source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and ARGs in the environment. Expanding our knowledge on the bacterial composition of hospital wastewater could help us to control infections in hospitals and decrease pathogen release into the environment. In this study, a high-throughput sequencing-based metagenomic approach was applied to investigate the community composition of bacteria and ARGs in untreated wastewater from three different types of hospitals [the general hospital, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) hospital, and stomatology hospital]. In total, 130 phyla and 2,554 genera were identified from the microbiota of the wastewaters, with significan

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8421800 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature