Degradation and Deactivation of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Genes during Exposure to Free Chlorine, Monochloramine, Chlorine Dioxide, Ozone, Ultraviolet Light, and Hydroxyl Radical

  28 April 2019

This work investigated degradation and biological deactivation of extra- and intracellular antibiotic resistance genes by free available chlorine (FAC), NH2Cl, O3, ClO2, and UV light (254 nm), and of eARGs by OH, using a chromosomal ARG (blt) of multidrug-resistant Bacillus subtilis1A189. These findings provide a quantitative framework for evaluating ARG fate during disinfection/oxidation, and support using qPCR as a proxy for tracking ARG deactivationunder carefully selected circumstances.

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