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- Sewage treatment plant effluents contribute significantly to antibiotic resistance (AR) pollution in rivers, with processes like dilution, diffusion, and sunlight affecting resistome coalescence.
- The study found that higher effluent volumes lead to increased AR pollution, but both dilution and diffusion help reduce its levels over time.
- Additionally, sunlight decreases the coverage and diversity of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in water, while darkness promotes an increase, indicating environmental factors play a critical role in the dynamics of AR transmission.
Article Abstract
Sewage treatment plant (STP) effluents are important contributors of antibiotic resistance (AR) pollution in rivers. Effluent discharging into rivers causes resistome coalescence. However, their mechanisms and dynamic processes are poorly understood, especially for the effects of dilution, diffusion, and sunlight-induced attenuation on coalescence. In this study, we have constructed microcosmic experiments based on in-situ investigation to explore these issues. The first batch experiment revealed the effects of dilution and diffusion. The coverage of water coalesced resistomes ranged 66.26∼152.18 × /Gb and was positively correlated with effluent volume (Mann-Kendall test, p < 0.01). Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) and source tracking analysis demonstrated that dilution and diffusion stepwise reduced AR pollution. The second batch experiment explored the temporal dynamics and sunlight attenuation on coalesced resistomes. Under natural light, the coverage and diversity of water resistomes posed decreasing trends, primarily attributed to drastic erasure of effluent traces. The proportion of effluent-specific ARGs in coalesced resistomes significantly declined over time (Spearman's r = -0.83 and -0.94 in coverage and richness). While under dark condition, the coverage and diversity increased. Sunlight radiation intensified the interactions between water and sediment resistomes, as evidenced by more shared ARGs and less dissimilarities across niches. Network analysis, metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) analysis and variation partitioning analysis (VPA) showed that microbiome controlled resistome coalescence, explaining 56.5% and 58.4% of resistomes in water and sediment, respectively. Biotic and abiotic factors synergistically explained 40% of water resistomes. This study offers a comprehensive understanding of AR transmission and provides theoretical bases for grasping AR pollution and developing effective suppression strategies.
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Article Synopsis
- Sewage treatment plant effluents contribute significantly to antibiotic resistance (AR) pollution in rivers, with processes like dilution, diffusion, and sunlight affecting resistome coalescence.
- The study found that higher effluent volumes lead to increased AR pollution, but both dilution and diffusion help reduce its levels over time.
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