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Longitudinal Comparison of Bacterial Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in New York City Sewage.
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- Wastewater surveillance reveals patterns of antibiotic resistance across the United States.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Could the load of carbapenemase genes in hospital wastewater be a proxy for emerging resistance to carbapenems in humans?Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2026Article
- Using wastewater surveillance to investigate community-level differences in antibacterial resistance in a major urban center, USA.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Global wastewater microbiome reveals core bacterial community and viral diversity with regional antibiotic resistance patterns.mSystems · 2025Article
- Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Demonstrating a Comprehensive Wastewater-Based Surveillance Approach That Differentiates Globally Sourced Resistomes.Environmental science & technology · 2022Article
- Longitudinal metatranscriptomic sequencing of Southern California wastewater representing 16 million people from August 2020-21 reveals widespread transcription of antibiotic resistance genes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2022Article
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- Characterization of Environmental and Cultivable Antibiotic-Resistant Microbial Communities Associated with Wastewater Treatment.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Metagenomic-Enabled Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance at a Conventional Wastewater Treatment Plant.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Antibiotic Resistance in Recreational Waters: State of the Science.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
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- Initial Mapping of the New York City Wastewater Virome.mSystems · 2020Article
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Abstract
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a pressing health issue around the world, not only in health care settings but also in the community and environment, particularly in crowded urban populations. The aim of our work was to characterize the microbial populations in sewage and the spread of antibiotic resistance within New York City (NYC). Here, we investigated the structure of the microbiome and the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes in raw sewage samples collected from the fourteen NYC Department of Environmental Protection wastewater treatment plants, distributed across the five NYC boroughs. Sewage, a direct output of anthropogenic activity and a reservoir of microbes, provides an ecological niche to examine the spread of antibiotic resistance. Taxonomic diversity analysis revealed a largely similar and stable bacterial population structure across all the samples, which was found to be similar over three time points in an annual cycle, as well as in the five NYC boroughs. All samples were positive for the presence of the seven antibiotic resistance genes tested, based on real-time quantitative PCR assays, with higher levels observed for tetracycline resistance genes at all time points. For five of the seven genes, abundances were significantly higher in May than in February and August. This study provides characteristics of the NYC sewage resistome in the context of the overall bacterial populations.
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