Maria Virginia Prieto Riquelme, Emily Garner, Suraj Gupta, Jake Metch, Ni Zhu, Matthew F Blair, Gustavo Arango-Argoty, Ayella Maile-Moskowitz, An-Dong Li, Carl-Fredrik Flach, Diana S Aga, Indumathi M Nambi, D G Joakim Larsson, Helmut Bürgmann, Tong Zhang, Amy Pruden, Peter J Vikesland
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) for disease monitoring is highly promising but requires consistent methodologies that incorporate predetermined objectives, targets, and metrics. Herein, we describe a comprehensive metagenomics-based approach for global surveillance of antibiotic resistance in sewage that enables assessment of 1) which antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are shared across regions/communities; 2) which ARGs are discriminatory; and 3) factors associated with overall trends in ARGs, such as antibiotic concentrations...
June 27, 2022: Environmental Science & Technology