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Seasonal distribution of human-to-human pathogens in airborne PM2.5 and their potential high-risk ARGs
- Source :
- Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol 15 (2024)
- Publication Year :
- 2024
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2024.
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Abstract
- Airborne microorganisms, an emerging global health threat, have attracted extensive studies. However, few attentions have been paid to the seasonal distribution of airborne pathogens, in particular their associations with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). To this end, two-week daily PM2.5 samples were consecutively collected from Nanchang in four seasons, and the human-to-human pathogens were screened based on high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that there were 20 pathogenic taxa in PM2.5 in Nanchang, and the highest relative abundance of pathogens was observed in winter (5.84%), followed by summer (3.51%), autumn (2.66%), and spring (1.80%). Although more than half of pathogenic taxa were shared by the four seasons, the analysis of similarities showed that pathogenic community was shaped by season (r = 0.16, p
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1664302X
- Volume :
- 15
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.06879eda17fd4f1099ec0270ef0e2a82
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1422637