Impacts of irrigation with treated livestock wastewater on the accumulation characteristic of ARGs in the farmland soil: a case study in Hohhot, China.
Environ Geochem Health
; 46(1): 26, 2024 Jan 15.
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ABSTRACT
Irrigation with treated livestock wastewater (TWW) is a promising strategy for reusing resources. However, TWW irrigation might introduce antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) into the soil, posing environmental risks associated with antibiotic resistance. This study focuses on investigating the influence of irrigation amounts and duration on the fate of ARGs and identifies key factors driving their changes. The results showed that there were 13 ARGs in TWW, while only 5 ARGs were detected in irrigated soil. That is some introduced ARGs from TWW could not persistently exist in the soil. After 1-year irrigation, an increase in irrigation amount from 0.016 t/m2 to 0.048 t/m2 significantly enhanced the abundance of tetC by 29.81%, while ermB and sul2 decreased by 45.37% and 76.47%, respectively (p < 0.01). After 2-year irrigation, the abundance of tetC, ermB, ermF, dfrA1, and total ARGs significantly increased (p < 0.05) when the irrigation amount increased. The abundances of ARGs after 2-year irrigation were found to be 2.5-34.4 times higher than 1 year. Obviously, the irrigation years intensified the positive correlation between ARGs abundance and irrigation amount. TetC and ermF were the dominant genes resulting in the accumulation of ARGs. TWW irrigation increased the content of organic matter and total nitrogen in the soil, which affected microbial community structure. The changes of the potential host were the determining factors driving the ARGs abundance. Our study demonstrated that continuous TWW irrigation for 2 years led to a substantial accumulation of ARGs in soil.
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Prognostic_studies
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Asia
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Environ Geochem Health
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Environ. geochem. health (Dordr., Online)
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Environmental geochemistry and health (Dordrecht. Online)
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QUIMICA
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2024
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