Xenogenetic evolutionary of integrons promotes the environmental pollution of antibiotic resistance genes—Challenges, progress and prospects

R An, Y Qi, XX Zhang, L Ma - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental pollution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has been a great public
concern. Integrons, as mobile genetic elements, with versatile gene acquisition systems …

An omics-based framework for assessing the health risk of antimicrobial resistance genes

AN Zhang, JM Gaston, CL Dai, S Zhao, M Poyet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are widespread among bacteria. However, not all ARGs
pose serious threats to public health, highlighting the importance of identifying those that are …

[HTML][HTML] ARGs-OAP v3. 0: Antibiotic-resistance gene database curation and analysis pipeline optimization

X Yin, X Zheng, L Li, AN Zhang, XT Jiang, T Zhang - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance, which is encoded by antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs), has
proliferated to become a growing threat to public health around the world. With technical …

Charting the complexity of the activated sludge microbiome through a hybrid sequencing strategy

L Liu, Y Wang, Y Yang, D Wang, SH Cheng, C Zheng… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Long-read sequencing has shown its tremendous potential to address genome
assembly challenges, eg, achieving the first telomere-to-telomere assembly of a gapless …

The fate of sulfonamide resistance genes and anthropogenic pollution marker intI1 after discharge of wastewater into a pristine river stream

S Haenelt, G Wang, JC Kasmanas, F Musat… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Currently there are sparse regulations regarding the discharge of antibiotics
from wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) into river systems, making surface waters a latent …

Increased risks of antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) induced by chlorine disinfection in the reverse osmosis system for potable reuse of reclaimed water

YH Wu, YH Wang, S Xue, Z Chen, LW Luo, Y Bai… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The reverse osmosis (RO) process has been applied extensively in wastewater reclamation
for industrial and potable reuse. To prevent biofouling, chlorine disinfection was usually …

Nanopore sequencing analysis of integron gene cassettes in sewages and soils

XL An, OK Abass, CX Zhao, MR Xu, T Pan, Q Pu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Integrons are genetic elements that can facilitate rapid spread of antibiotic resistance by
insertion and removal of genes. However, knowledge about the diversity and distribution of …

Exploring the bacterial diversity and composition with special emphasis on pathogens in ship ballast water and sediments using full-length 16S rRNA gene …

T An, X Lu, Y Han, C Guo, J Guo, G Zhu, W Tian… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate detecting bacterial communities in ballast water and sediments supports risk
management. This study uses full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing to investigate the …

Responses of the soil bacterial community, resistome, and mobilome to a decade of annual exposure to macrolide antibiotics

LP Brown, R Murray, A Scott, YC Tien… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Biosolids that are applied to agricultural soil as an organic fertilizer are frequently
contaminated with pharmaceutical residues that have persisted during wastewater treatment …

Prevalence of class 1 integron and its gene cassettes carrying antibiotic resistance genes in drinking water treatment and distribution systems

S Liu, Z Li, Y Shen, S Jia, P Liu, XX Zhang - Frontiers of Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Class 1 integrons are vital mobile genetic elements involved in the environmental
transmission of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, knowledge about the diversity …