title: A Comprehensive Analysis on Spread and Distribution Characteristic of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Livestock Farms of Southeastern China.
abstract: The pollution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in livestock farms is a problem which need to be paid more attention to, due to the severe resistance dissemination and the further human health risk. In this study, all the relevant exposure matrices (manure, soil and water) of sixteen animal farms in Southeastern China were sampled to determine twenty-two ARGs conferring resistance to five major classes of antibiotics including tetracyclines, sulfonamides, quinolones, aminoglycosides, and macrolides. The results showed that the spread property of sul genes was most extensive and strong, followed by tet and erm genes. The abundance of tet genes expressing ribosomal protection proteins (tetM, tetO, tetQ, tetT and tetW) was higher than that expressing efflux pump proteins (tetA, tetC, tetE and tetG) in each type of samples. The high abundance and frequency of ermB gene in the matrices should be paid more attention, because macrolides is a major medicine for human use. For manures, it was found that the similar ARGs distribution rules were existing in poultry manure or porcine manure samples, despite of the different origins of these two types of livestock farms. Meanwhile, it was interesting that the distribution rule of tet genes in animal manure was nearly the same as all the ARGs. For soils, the result of nonmetric multi-dimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis showed that the pollution of ARGs in the soils fertilized by poultry and cattle manures were more substantial in northern Jiangsu, but no significant ARGs diversity was observed among porcine manured soils of five different regions. Furthermore, most ARGs showed significant positive relationships with environmental variables such as concentration of sulfonamides, tetracyclines, Cu, Zn and total organic carbon (TOC). The pollution profile and characteristics of so many ARGs in livestock farms can provide significative foundation for the regulation and legislation of antibiotics in China.
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.|Key Laboratory of Pesticide Environmental Assessment and Pollution Control, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.|Key Laboratory of Pesticide Environmental Assessment and Pollution Control, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.
authors.forename: Xinyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Chinese Society For Environmental Sciences, Beijing, 100082, PR China.
authors.forename: Zheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, PR China.
authors.forename: Biao
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Nanjing, 210042, PR China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, PR China.
authors.forename: Boping
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ye
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D002244:Carbon / Q000032:analysis; D002417:Cattle; D002645:Chickens; D002681:China; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial / Q000235:genetics*; D000072480:Farms; D005308:Fertilizers; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D058751:Livestock; D018942:Macrolides / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008372:Manure / Q000032:analysis / Q000382:microbiology*; D012987:Soil; D013552:Swine; D014730:Veterinary Medicine
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005308:Fertilizers; D018942:Macrolides; D008372:Manure; D012987:Soil; D002244:Carbon