title: Influence of a non-hospital medical care facility on antimicrobial resistance in wastewater.
abstract: The global widespread use of antimicrobials and accompanying increase in resistant bacterial strains is of major public health concern. Wastewater systems and wastewater treatment plants are considered a niche for antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), with diverse microbial communities facilitating ARG transfer via mobile genetic element (MGE). In contrast to hospital sewage, wastewater from other health care facilities is still poorly investigated. At the instance of a nursing home located in south-west Germany, in the present study, shotgun metagenomics was used to investigate the impact on wastewater of samples collected up- and down-stream in different seasons. Microbial composition, ARGs and MGEs were analyzed using different annotation approaches with various databases, including Antibiotic Resistance Ontologies (ARO), integrons and plasmids. Our analysis identified seasonal differences in microbial communities and abundance of ARG and MGE between samples from different seasons. However, no obvious differences were detected between up- and downstream samples. The results suggest that, in contrast to hospitals, sewage from the nursing home does not have a major impact on ARG or MGE in wastewater, presumably due to much less intense antimicrobial usage. Possible limitations of metagenomic studies using high-throughput sequencing for detection of genes that seemingly confer antibiotic resistance are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and Hospital Infection Control, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Mathias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bäumlisberger
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and Hospital Infection Control, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Loubna
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Youssar
authors.affiliation: Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Schilhabel
authors.affiliation: Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and Hospital Infection Control, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jonas
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial / Q000235:genetics*; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006268:Health Facilities; D020071:Interspersed Repetitive Sequences; D056186:Metagenomics; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012621:Seasons; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D062065:Wastewater / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D062065:Wastewater
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