Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance
02 December 2022
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 757 sewage samples from 243 cities in 101 countries, collected from 2016 to 2019. We find regional patterns in resistomes, and these differ between subsets corresponding to drug classes and are partly driven by taxonomic variation.
Further reading: Nature Communications
Author(s): Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas N. Petersen, Rene S. Hendriksen, Anne Mette Seyfarth, Jette S. Kjeldgaard, Christina Aaby Svendsen, Bram van Bunnik, Fanny Berglund, Global Sewage Surveillance Consortium, D. G. Joakim Larsson, Marion Koopmans, Mark Woolhouse & Frank M. Aarestrup
Clean Environment
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