Positive relationship detected between soil bioaccessible organic pollutants and antibiotic resistance genes at dairy farms in Nanjing, Eastern China
Publication Date
2015-11-30Author
Sun, Mingming
Ye, Mao
Wu, Jun
Feng, Yanfang
Wan, Jinzhong
Tian, Da
Shen, Fangyuan
Liu, Kuan
Hu, Feng
Li, Huixin
Jiang, Xin
Yang, Linzhang
Kengara, Fredrick O
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Abstract Co-contaminated soils by organic pollutants (OPs), antibiotics and antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs) have been becoming an emerging problem. However, it is unclear
if an interaction exists between mixed pollutants and ARG abundance. Therefore, the
potential relationship between OP contents and ARG and class 1 integron-integrase gene
(intI1) abundance was investigated from seven dairy farms in Nanjing, Eastern China.
Phenanthrene, pentachlorophenol, sulfadiazine, roxithromycin, associated ARG genes, and
intI1 had the highest detection frequencies. Correlation analysis suggested a stronger
positive relationship between the ARG abundance and the bioaccessible OP content than
the total OP content. Additionally, the significant correlation between the bioaccessible
mixed pollutant contents and ARG/intI1 abundance suggested a direct/indirect impact of …
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