Journal article
Aerobic composting reduces antibiotic resistance genes in cattle manure and the resistome dissemination in agricultural soils
Min Gou, Hang-Wei Hu, Yu-Jing Zhang, Jun-Tao Wang, Helen Hayden, Yue-Qin Tang, Ji-Zheng He
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT | ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV | Published : 2018
Abstract
Composting has been suggested as a potential strategy to eliminate antibiotic residues and pathogens in livestock manure before its application as an organic fertilizer in agro-ecosystems. However, the impacts of composting on antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in livestock manure and their temporal succession following the application of compost to land are not well understood. We examined how aerobic composting affected the resistome profiles of cattle manure, and by constructing laboratory microcosms we compared the effects of manure and compost application to agricultural soils on the temporal succession of a wide spectrum of ARGs. The high-throughput quantitative PCR array detected a to..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was financially supported by the Australian Research Council (DP170103628, DE150100870), National Natural Science Foundation of China (31200068), and Australian-China Joint Research Centre (ACSRF48165). We thank Ms. Xia Liang and Dr. Mei Bai for their assistance in the manure sample collection.