Nanopore-based long-read metagenomics uncover the resistome intrusion by antibiotic resistant bacteria from treated wastewater in receiving water body

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  • Wu, Bruce
  • You Che
  • Chenyuan Dang
  • Miao Zhang
  • Xuyang Zhang
  • Yuhong Sun
  • Xiang Li
  • Tong Zhang
  • Yu Xia

Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent discharge could induce the resistome enrichment in the receiving water environments. However, because of the general lack of a robust antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) identification method, the driving mechanism for resistome accumulation in receiving environment is unclear. Here, we took advantage of the enhanced ARBs recognition by nanopore long reads to distinguish the indigenous ARBs and the accumulation of WWTP-borne ARBs in the receiving water body of a domestic WWTP. A bioinformatic framework (named ARGpore2: https://github.com/sustc-xylab/ARGpore2) was constructed and evaluate to facilitate antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and ARBs identification in nanopore reads. ARGs identification by ARGpore2 showed comparable precision and recall to that of the commonly adopt BLASTP-based method, whereas the spectrum of ARBs doubled that of the assembled Illumina dataset. Totally, we identified 33 ARBs genera carrying 65 ARG subtypes in the receiving seawater, whose concentration was in general 10 times higher than clean seawater's. Notably we report a primary resistome intrusion caused by the revival of residual microbes survived from disinfection treatment. These WWTP-borne ARBs, including several animal/human enteric pathogens, contributed up to 85% of the receiving water resistome. Plasmids and class 1 integrons were reckoned as major vehicles facilitating the persistence and dissemination of ARGs. Moreover, our work demonstrated the importance of extensive carrier identification in determining the driving force of multifactor coupled resistome booming in complicated environmental conditions, thereby paving the way for establishing priority for effective ARGs mitigation strategies.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer119282
TidsskriftWater Research
Vol/bind226
Antal sider10
ISSN0043-1354
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2022

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Funding Information:
Our research was funded by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No.2022YFE0103200), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grand No. 42007216, 42277103 and 42177357) and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2021A1515012191). Also, we would like to thank centre for Computational Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and core research facilities at SUSTech to provide quality resources and services. Finally, we express our sincere acknowledgement to Dr. Yu Ke from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School for the kind supply of whole genome datasets of isolated strains.

Funding Information:
Our research was funded by National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2022YFE0103200 ), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grand No. 42007216 , 42277103 and 42177357 ) and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (Grant No. 2021A1515012191 ) . Also, we would like to thank centre for Computational Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and core research facilities at SUSTech to provide quality resources and services. Finally, we express our sincere acknowledgement to Dr. Yu Ke from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School for the kind supply of whole genome datasets of isolated strains.

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