Antibiotic resistant bacteria are ubiquitous in the natural environment. The introduction of effluent derived antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) into aquatic environments is of concern in the spreading of genetic risk. This study showed the prevalence of sulfonamide and tetracycline resistance genes, sul1, sul2, sul3, and tet(M), in the total bacterial assemblage and colony forming bacterial asse...

Abstract In this study, we use high-throughput sequencing-based metagenomic methods to investigate the differences in seasonal structures of bacterial community and abundance diversity antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) mobile genetic elements (MGEs) both shrimp ponds river water samples downstream Day River, Ninh Binh, Vietnam. The structure central community, ARGs, MGEs was found be regardles...

An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform. An ARG layers a fictional world over the real world such that, as a player moves through the real world, a narrative structure plays out. Typically a puppetmaster monitors players from remote, making adjustments to the narrative arc as necessary (analogous to a branching storyline). Many ARGs uti...

There is a well-documented indication that several applications would benefit from the transparency afforded by argumentation to support decision-making where standard decision theory is not useful, e.g. in healthcare. However, to date, research on argumentation-based decision making has only been partially successful in realising its promise. In our view this is predominantly due to its lack o...

This study investigates faecal indicator bacteria (FIB), multiple antibiotic resistant (MAR), and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), of sediment profiles from different parts of Lake Geneva (Switzerland) over the last decades. MARs consist to expose culturable Escherichia coli (EC) and Enterococcus (ENT) to mixed five antibiotics including Ampicillin, Tetracycline, Amoxicillin, Chloramphenicol...

The presence of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) including those expressing ESBLs and AmpC-β-lactamases in Escherichia coli inhabiting the aquatic environments is a serious health problem. The situation is further complicated by the fact that ARGs can be easily transferred among bacterial species with the help of mobile genetic elements - plasmids, integrons, insertion sequences (IS), and tra...

This study aimed to investigate the influence of cropping method and substrate type on fate removal bacterial antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) indicators from primary wastewater by constructed wetlands (CWs) during startup maturation stages. Four small-scale CWs differing in their plantation pattern (monoculture vs. polyculture) were operated under field conditions. While for bacteria, greate...

Abstract Background Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) threaten ecological sustainability human health, especially the drinking water sources of Douhe Reservoir, which have critical significance amid their direct use by people hub flora fauna. Although antibiotics ARGs pollution in reservoirs been reported, it is no practical to only study changes (increase or decrease) abundanc...

Antibiotic contamination in agroecosystems may cause serious problems, such as the proliferation of various antibiotic resistant bacteria and the spreading of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment or even to human beings. However, it is unclear whether environmental antibiotics, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and ARGs can directly enter into, or occur in, the endophytic systems ...