Understanding human health risks caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water environments: Current knowledge and …

M Amarasiri, D Sano, S Suzuki - Critical Reviews in Environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Aquatic environments are identified as an ideal setting for acquisition and dissemination of
antibiotic resistance, and human exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and …

Biofilms: hot spots of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in aquatic environments, with a focus on a new HGT mechanism

K Abe, N Nomura, S Suzuki - FEMS microbiology ecology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Biofilms in water environments are thought to be hot spots for horizontal gene transfer (HGT)
of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). ARGs can be spread via HGT, though mechanisms …

Occurrence of intracellular and extracellular antibiotic resistance genes in coastal areas of Bohai Bay (China) and the factors affecting them

Y Zhang, Z Niu, Y Zhang, K Zhang - Environmental Pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal areas are the transition zones between ocean and land where intracellular antibiotic
resistance genes (iARGs) and extracellular antibiotic resistance genes (eARGs) could …

Microbial regulation of natural antibiotic resistance: Understanding the protist-bacteria interactions for evolution of soil resistome

BAT Nguyen, QL Chen, JZ He, HW Hu - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The emergence, evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the
environment represent a global threat to human health. Our knowledge of antibiotic …

Winter is coming–Impact of temperature on the variation of beta-lactamase and mcr genes in a wastewater treatment plant

L Schages, F Wichern, R Kalscheuer… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) play a key role in the dissemination of antibiotic
resistance and analyzing the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and resistant …

Microbial warfare in the wild—the impact of protists on the evolution and virulence of bacterial pathogens

F Amaro, A Martín-González - International Microbiology, 2021 - Springer
During the long history of co-evolution with protists, bacteria have evolved defense
strategies to avoid grazing and survive phagocytosis. These mechanisms allow bacteria to …

Investigating and modeling the regulation of extracellular antibiotic resistance gene bioavailability by naturally occurring nanoparticles

NN Chowdhury, E Hicks… - Environmental science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Extracellular antibiotic resistance genes (eARGs) are widespread in the environment and
can genetically transform bacteria. This work examined the role of environmentally relevant …

Unveiling the critical role of overlooked consumer protist-bacteria interactions in antibiotic resistance gene dissemination in urban sewage systems

L Zhang, B Adyari, C Ma, M Cao, M Gad… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2025 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are emerging contaminants of significant concern due to
their role in facilitating the spread of antibiotic resistance, especially high-risk ARGs, which …

Protist predation promotes antimicrobial resistance spread through antagonistic microbiome interactions

C Liu, Y Wang, Z Zhou, S Wang, Z Wei… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance has grown into a major public health threat. In this study, we reveal
predation by protists as an overlooked driver of antibiotic resistance dissemination in the soil …

[HTML][HTML] Urbanization enhances consumer protist-driven ARGs dissemination in riverine ecosystems

B Adyari, L Zhang, A Maravić, J Chen, L Li, M Gad… - Environment …, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite the emergence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and antibiotic resistant
bacteria (ARBs), how biological inter-trophic interactions, modulated by watershed …