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Title: The effects of antibiotics on microbial community composition in an estuary reservoir during spring and summer seasons
Authors: Xu, Z
Jiang, Y
Te, S.H 
He, Y 
Gin, K.Y 
Keywords: Amides
Bacteria
Drug products
Ecology
Multivariant analysis
Quality control
Reservoirs (water)
Sewage treatment plants
Sulfur compounds
Surface mount technology
Surface waters
Water quality
Antibacterial properties
Bacterial community
Bacterial community composition
Co-occurrence pattern
Fluoroquinolones (FQs)
Gram-negative bacteria
Microbial community composition
Multivariate statistical analysis
Antibiotics
antibiotics
bacterium
coexistence
community composition
concentration (composition)
estuarine environment
microbial community
microbial ecology
reservoir
spring (season)
summer
surface water
water quality
China
Qingcaosha Reservoir
Shanghai
Bacteria (microorganisms)
Negibacteria
Issue Date: 2018
Citation: Xu, Z, Jiang, Y, Te, S.H, He, Y, Gin, K.Y (2018). The effects of antibiotics on microbial community composition in an estuary reservoir during spring and summer seasons. Water (Switzerland) 10 (2) : 154. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10020154
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: The increased antibiotic pollutants in aquatic environments pose severe threats on microbial ecology due to their extensive distribution and antibacterial properties. A total of 16 antibiotics including fluoroquinolones (FQs) (ofloxacin (OFX), ciprofloxacin (CFX), norfloxacin (NFX)), Sulfonamides (SAs) (sulfamonomethoxine (SMM), sulfadiazine (SDZ), sulfaquinoxaline (SQX)), Tetracyclines (TCs) (tetracycline (TC), doxycycline (DC)), ?-lactams (penicillin G (PEN G), penicillin V (PEN V), cefalexin (LEX)), Macrolides (MLs) (erythromycin-H2O (ETM), tylosin (TYL)) and other antibiotics (Polymix-B (POL), Vancomycin (VAN), Lincomycin (LIN)) were detected in the surface water of the Qingcaosha Reservoir. Multivariate statistical analysis indicated that both water quality and physicochemical indexes have less contributions on variations of these antibiotics, suggesting the concentrations of antibiotics inside the reservoir are mainly affected by upstream runoff and anthropic activity along the river. Antibiotics including TYL, PEN G and ETM showed significant correlations with variations of bacterial community composition, and closely connected with various gram-negative bacteria in co-occurrence/exclusion patterns of the network, suggesting these bacterial taxa play important roles in the course of migration and transformation of related antibiotics. In conclusion, further research is required to evaluate the potential risk of genetic transfer of resistance to related bacteria induced by long-term exposure to low levels of antibiotics in the environment. © 2018 by the authors.
Source Title: Water (Switzerland)
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/178262
ISSN: 20734441
DOI: 10.3390/w10020154
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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