EcoARP_IZSPB 05/22 RC
Between May 2023 and December 2024, 148 surface water samples were collected from six rivers and two lakes of northern Apulia, Italy, and processed as previously described (2). Presumptive carbapenemase-producing isolates were subjected to whole-genome sequencing (WGS) using Illumina NextSeq. Data were assembled with SPAdes v3.15.2 and analysed with an in-house bioinformatics pipeline using the ResFinder database (https://bitbucket.org/genomicepidemiology/resfinder) for the in silico detection of acquired AMR genes.