Long-term biogas slurry application increased antibiotics accumulation and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) spread in agricultural soils with different properties

The Science of the Total Environment
Yi LuShengdao Shan

Abstract

Animal manures are commonly applied to soil which possibly promote the spread of antibiotic resistance from soil to human beings via food chains. Biogas slurry is an end product of anaerobic digestion of animal manures, which has been widely applied as fertilizers in the agricultural soil. However, effect of long-term biogas slurry application on the soil antibiotic resistance and the associated mechanism still remains unclear. The present study characterized antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), mobile genetic elements (MGEs) and bacterial community, in different agricultural soils unamended (BS-) and amended (BS+) with biogas slurry (8-18 years) in five field experiments. Our results indicated that long-term application of biogas slurry largely increased the concentrations of tetracyclines in soils, and greatly increased the abundances of ARGs, transposase gene (Tn916/1545) and ARGs-associated bacteria. Long-term application of biogas slurry led to tetracyclines accumulation and ARGs enrichment in agricultural soil, and the selection pressure from tetracyclines and the increase of Tn916/1545 abundace become potential contributors for the increase of soil antibiotic resistance via promoting the enrichment of ARG-ass...Continue Reading

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