Metagenomic approach reveals the fate of antibiotic resistance genes in a temperature-raising anaerobic digester treating municipal sewage sludge

R Xu, Y Zhang, W Xiong, W Sun, Q Fan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
The fate of diverse antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in anaerobic digestion (AD) system
under different temperature remains largely unknow. This study employed the shotgun …

Effect of temperature on removal of antibiotic resistance genes by anaerobic digestion of activated sludge revealed by metagenomic approach

T Zhang, Y Yang, A Pruden - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2015 - Springer
As antibiotic resistance continues to spread globally, there is growing interest in the potential
to limit the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) from wastewater sources. In …

Fate of antibiotic resistance genes during temperature-changed psychrophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal sludge

H Yun, B Liang, Y Ding, S Li, Z Wang, A Khan, P Zhang… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The effects of anaerobic digestion (AD) on the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) are highly related to operational temperature. However, the removal performance of …

Fate of antibiotic resistance genes and metal resistance genes during thermophilic aerobic digestion of sewage sludge

HM Jang, J Lee, YB Kim, JH Jeon, J Shin, MR Park… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study examines the fate of twenty-three representative antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs) encoding tetracyclines, sulfonamides, quinolones, β-lactam antibiotics, macrolides …

Determining the composition of bacterial community and relative abundance of specific antibiotics resistance genes via thermophilic anaerobic digestion of sewage …

J Shin, C Rhee, J Shin, HM Jang, SG Shin… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the effects of different temperature transitions on the dynamics of antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) and bacterial community were investigated during start-up of …

[HTML][HTML] Responses of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes, and mobile genetic elements in sewage sludge to thermal hydrolysis pre-treatment and various …

C Sun, W Li, Z Chen, W Qin, X Wen - Environment international, 2019 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) harbours large amounts of
antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), the …

Microbial community evolution and fate of antibiotic resistance genes during sludge treatment in two full-scale anaerobic digestion plants with thermal hydrolysis …

J Tong, P Fang, J Zhang, Y Wei, Y Su, Y Zhang - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) with thermal hydrolysis pretreatment is widely used as an efficient
sludge treatment nowadays. However, the evolution of microbial community (especially for …

Metagenomic analysis reveals the fate of antibiotic resistance genes in two-stage and one-stage anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

Z Shi, R Zhao, J Wan, B Li, Y Shen, S Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Waste activated sludge (WAS) from wastewater treatment plants is an important reservoir of
antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). The fate of ARGs in this process was not revealed …

Factors influencing the fate of antibiotic resistance genes during thermochemical pretreatment and anaerobic digestion of pharmaceutical waste sludge

J Tong, X Lu, J Zhang, I Angelidaki, Y Wei - Environmental pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
The prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in waste sludge, especially for the
pharmaceutical waste sludge, presents great potential risks to human health. Although …

Thermophilic rather than mesophilic sludge anaerobic digesters possess lower antibiotic resistant genes abundance

Y Zhang, Q Mao, Y Su, H Zhang, H Liu, B Fu, Z Su… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
For exploring the impact of temperature on antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) during sludge
anaerobic digestion (AD), the dynamic variations of sludge ARGs, plasmid ARGs, and cell …