Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in agricultural soils from the Yangtze River Delta, China

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 740; p. 140001
• Main Authors: Sun, Jianteng, Jin, Ling, He, Tangtian, Wei, Zi, Liu, Xinyi, Zhu, Lizhong, Li, Xiangdong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 20.10.2020
• Subjects: Agricultural soils; antibiotic resistance; Antibiotic resistance genes; Antibiotics; China; data collection; environment; humans; irrigation; lakes; manure spreading; pollution; river deltas; selection pressure; Yangtze River; Yangtze River Delta; China; Yangtze River; Agricultural soils; Antibiotics; Yangtze River Delta; Antibiotic resistance genes

As an important reservoir of intrinsic antimicrobial resistance, soil is subjected to increasing anthropogenic activities that creates sustained selection pressure for the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), thus constituting an important environmental dissemination pathway to human ex...