Next-generation sequencing (NGS) for assessment of microbial water quality: current progress, challenges, and future opportunities

BF Tan, C Ng, JP Nshimyimana, LL Loh… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Water quality is an emergent property of a complex system comprised of interacting
microbial populations and introduced microbial and chemical contaminants. Studies …

Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality

E Garner, BC Davis, E Milligan, MF Blair, I Keenum… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence of next generation sequencing (NGS) is revolutionizing the potential to
address complex microbiological challenges in the water industry. NGS technologies can …

ARGs-OAP v2. 0 with an expanded SARG database and Hidden Markov Models for enhancement characterization and quantification of antibiotic resistance genes in …

X Yin, XT Jiang, B Chai, L Li, Y Yang, JR Cole… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Much global attention has been paid to antibiotic resistance in monitoring its
emergence, accumulation and dissemination. For rapid characterization and quantification …

Metagenomic and network analysis reveal wide distribution and co-occurrence of environmental antibiotic resistance genes

B Li, Y Yang, L Ma, F Ju, F Guo, JM Tiedje… - The ISME …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
A metagenomic approach and network analysis was used to investigate the wide-spectrum
profiles of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and their co-occurrence patterns in 50 …

Bacterial community shift drives antibiotic resistance promotion during drinking water chlorination

S Jia, P Shi, Q Hu, B Li, T Zhang… - Environmental science & …, 2015 - ACS Publications
For comprehensive insights into the effects of chlorination, a widely used disinfection
technology, on bacterial community and antibiotic resistome in drinking water, this study …

The prevalence of integrons as the carrier of antibiotic resistance genes in natural and man-made environments

L Ma, AD Li, XL Yin, T Zhang - Environmental science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Class 1 integrase int I1 has been considered as a good proxy for anthropogenic pollution
because of being linked to genes conferring resistance to antibiotics. The gene cassettes of …

Metagenomic assembly reveals hosts of antibiotic resistance genes and the shared resistome in pig, chicken, and human feces

L Ma, Y Xia, B Li, Y Yang, LG Li… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
The risk associated with antibiotic resistance disseminating from animal and human feces is
an urgent public issue. In the present study, we sought to establish a pipeline for annotating …

Freshwater viral metagenome reveals novel and functional phage-borne antibiotic resistance genes

K Moon, JH Jeon, I Kang, KS Park, K Lee, CJ Cha… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
Background Antibiotic resistance developed by bacteria is a significant threat to global
health. Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) spread across different bacterial populations …

Catalogue of antibiotic resistome and host-tracking in drinking water deciphered by a large scale survey

L Ma, B Li, XT Jiang, YL Wang, Y Xia, AD Li, T Zhang - Microbiome, 2017 - Springer
Background Excesses of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which are regarded as
emerging environmental pollutants, have been observed in various environments. The …

[HTML][HTML] Risks of antibiotic resistance genes and antimicrobial resistance under chlorination disinfection with public health concerns

L Ma, H Yang, L Guan, X Liu, T Zhang - Environment International, 2022 - Elsevier
As a widely used disinfection technology, the effects of chlorination on antibiotic resistome
and bacterial community received great scientific concerns, while the pathogens associated …