Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance

  • Miriam Reverter,
  • Samira Sarter,
  • Domenico Caruso,
  • Jean-Christophe Avarre,
  • Marine Combe,
  • Elodie Pepey,
  • Laurent Pouyaud,
  • Sarahi Vega-Heredía,
  • Hugues de Verdal,
  • Rodolphe E. Gozlan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15735-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Global environmental changes threaten many food-producing sectors, including aquaculture. Here the authors show that countries most vulnerable to climate change will probably face the highest antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture-related bacteria, and that infected aquatic animals have higher mortality at warmer temperatures.