Chitosan as additive affects the bacterial community, accelerates the removals of antibiotics and related resistance genes during chicken manure composting.

Sci Total Environ

College of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, Liaoning, China; National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Soil and Fertilizer Resources, Shenyang 110866, Liaoning, China; Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Northeast China), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, Shenyang 110866, Liaoning, China.

Published: October 2021

AI Article Synopsis

  • Manures can lead to antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) that pollute soil and water, posing risks to human health.
  • Recent research explored how adding chitosan, compared to zeolite, affects the reduction of antibiotics and ARGs in chicken manure composting.
  • Adding chitosan significantly lowered antibiotic levels and ARG abundance, altering bacterial communities and suggesting a new strategy for mitigating ARG risks during composting.

Article Abstract

Manures, storages for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), pollute soil and water as well as endanger human health. Recently, we have been searching a better solution to remove antibiotics and ARGs during aerobic composting. Here, the dynamics of chitosan addition on the profiles of 71 ARGs, bacterial communities, chlortetracycline (CTC), ofloxacin (OFX) were investigated in chicken manure composting and compared with zeolite addition. Chitosan addition effectively reduces antibiotics contents (CTC under detection limit, OFX 90.96%), amounts (18) and abundance (56.7%, 11.1% higher than zeolite addition) of ARGs and mobile genetic elements (MGEs) after 42 days composting. Network analysis indicated that a total of 27 genera strains assigned into 4 phyla (Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes) were the potential hosts of ARGs. Redundancy analysis (RDA) demonstrated that bacterial community succession is the main contributor in the variation of ARGs. Overall, chitosan addition may effect bacterial composition by influencing physic-chemical properties and the concentration of antibiotics, Cu, Zn to reduce the risk of ARG transmission. This study gives a new strategy about antibiotics and ARGs removal from composting on the basis of previous studies.

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