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Agricultural Contamination Impacts Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundances In River Bed Sediment Temporally, Rachelle E. Beattie, Michael P. Walsh, Mercedes Cecilia Cruz, L. Rex Mcaliley, Laurel Dodgen, Wei Zheng, Krassimira R. Hristova
Agricultural Contamination Impacts Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundances In River Bed Sediment Temporally, Rachelle E. Beattie, Michael P. Walsh, Mercedes Cecilia Cruz, L. Rex Mcaliley, Laurel Dodgen, Wei Zheng, Krassimira R. Hristova
Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications
Kewaunee County, Wisconsin is an agricultural area dominated by concentrated animal feeding operations and manure fertilized cropland. The objective of this study was to characterize chemical and antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) profiles of 20 surface water locations in Kewaunee County to better understand relationships between agricultural contamination and ARG abundance over one year. Surface water (n = 101) and bed sediment (n = 93) were collected from 20 sites during five timepoints between July 2016 and May 2017. Samples were analyzed for six genes (erm(B), tet(W), sul1, qnrA, intI1 and 16S rRNA) and water chemistry …