Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge

Fanny Berglund; Stefan Ebmeyer; Erik Kristiansson; D. G. Joakim Larsson

doi:10.1038/s42003-023-04676-7

Communications Biology (Mar 2023)

Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge

Fanny Berglund,
Stefan Ebmeyer,
Erik Kristiansson,
D. G. Joakim Larsson

Affiliations

Fanny Berglund: Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Stefan Ebmeyer: Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg
Erik Kristiansson: Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research in Gothenburg (CARe), University of Gothenburg
D. G. Joakim Larsson: Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04676-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Wastewaters have a high abundance of the bacterial species from which many mobile resistance genes emerged, as well as the genetic elements that provided mobility. This makes wastewaters plausible evolutionary arenas for such mobilization events.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsbio/

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