Contribution of antibiotics to the fate of antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic treatment processes of swine wastewater: A review

Dongle Cheng; Huu Hao Ngo; Wenshan Guo; Soon Wang Chang; Dinh Duc Nguyen; Yiwen Liu; Xinbo Zhang; Xue Shan; Yi Liu

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122654

Contribution of antibiotics to the fate of antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic treatment processes of swine wastewater: A review

Bioresour Technol. 2020 Mar:299:122654. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122654. Epub 2019 Dec 20.

Authors

Dongle Cheng¹, Huu Hao Ngo², Wenshan Guo³, Soon Wang Chang⁴, Dinh Duc Nguyen⁵, Yiwen Liu¹, Xinbo Zhang⁶, Xue Shan⁶, Yi Liu⁷

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia.
² Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia; Joint Research Centre for Protective Infrastructure Technology and Environmental Green Bioprocess, Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, China; Department of Environmental Energy Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia; Joint Research Centre for Protective Infrastructure Technology and Environmental Green Bioprocess, Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, China.
⁴ Department of Environmental Energy Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Department of Environmental Energy Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea; Institution of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Viet Nam; NTT Institute of Hi-Technology, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
⁶ Joint Research Centre for Protective Infrastructure Technology and Environmental Green Bioprocess, Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Tianjin 300384, China.
⁷ Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, 2205 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, PR China.

PMID: 31917094
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122654

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in water environment have become a global health concern. Swine wastewater is widely considered to be one of the major contributors for promoting the proliferation of ARGs in water environments. This paper comprehensively reviews and discusses the occurrence and removal of ARGs in anaerobic treatment of swine wastewater, and contributions of antibiotics to the fate of ARGs. The results reveal that ARGs' removal is unstable during anaerobic processes, which negatively associated with the presence of antibiotics. The abundance of bacteria carrying ARGs increases with the addition of antibiotics and results in the spread of ARGs. The positive relationship was found between antibiotics and the abundance and transfer of ARGs in this review. However, it is necessary to understand the correlation among antibiotics, ARGs and microbial communities, and obtain more knowledge about controlling the dissemination of ARGs in the environment.

Keywords: Anaerobic treatment processes; Antibiotic resistance genes; Antibiotics; Swine wastewater.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anaerobiosis
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents*
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Genes, Bacterial
Swine
Wastewater*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Waste Water