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Responses of the Soil Bacterial Community, Resistome, and Mobilome to a Decade of Annual Exposure to Macrolide Antibiotics
6 Apr 2022
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Biosolids, produced from the treatment of sewage sludge, are rich in plant nutrients and are a valuable alternative to inorganic fertilizer when applied to agricultural soil. However, the use of biosolids in agriculture, which are frequently contaminated with pharmaceuticals, such as macrolide antibiotics, may pose a risk to human health by selecting for antibiotic resistance genes that could be transferred to...
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