Communications Biology (Mar 2022)

Diversity of Antibiotic Resistance genes and Transfer Elements-Quantitative Monitoring (DARTE-QM): a method for detection of antimicrobial resistance in environmental samples

  • Schuyler D. Smith,
  • Jinlyung Choi,
  • Nicole Ricker,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Shannon Hinsa-Leasure,
  • Michelle L. Soupir,
  • Heather K. Allen,
  • Adina Howe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03155-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Smith et al. present DARTE-QM, a highthroughput sequencing method for screening environmental DNA samples for antibiotic resistance genes on a broad scale. This method is demonstrated as effective on soil, manure and livestock fecal samples, as well as a synthetic mock-community reference.