The dissemination and evolution routes of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are part of the outstanding questions in the current global antimicrobial resistance crisis. This crisis should be addressed by a concerted and integrated approach involving all ecological compartments where antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) reservoirs are generated, maintained, and disseminated. Although being investigated in recent years, the role of aquatic systems in the generation, maintenance, and dissemination of AMR is not fully understood. The advent of new technologies and methods such as omics technologies and bioinformatic tools provide the scientific community with excellent opportunities to uncover the role of the aquatic environments in the emergence, evolution, and dissemination of AMR.
This Research Topic aims to deliver state-of-the-art knowledge and ideas on the role of the aquatic environments on the selection, maintenance, and transmission of AMR determinants. The main themes of the topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Detection and tracking of emerging drug-resistant bacteria in aquatic ecosystems.
• Metagenomic studies of the resistome of microbial communities impacted by anthropogenic activities in aquatic context.
• Influence of raw and treated sewage or sludge as fertilizer on the aquatic resistome.
• New experimental approaches in aquatic resistome research.
• Aquaculture and dissemination of AMR and ARGs.
• Urbanization as a principal contributor of AMR and ARGs in water masses (rivers, lakes, ocean).
• Climate change as a driver of the dissemination of AMR and ARGs in water masses.
• The role of aquatic environments in “One Health” and “Global Health” contexts.
• New technologies to combat the dissemination of AMR and ARGs in wastewater treatment systems.
• The fates of AMR and ARGs in reclaimed water.
• Dissemination vectors of ARGs in aquatic environments.
The dissemination and evolution routes of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are part of the outstanding questions in the current global antimicrobial resistance crisis. This crisis should be addressed by a concerted and integrated approach involving all ecological compartments where antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) reservoirs are generated, maintained, and disseminated. Although being investigated in recent years, the role of aquatic systems in the generation, maintenance, and dissemination of AMR is not fully understood. The advent of new technologies and methods such as omics technologies and bioinformatic tools provide the scientific community with excellent opportunities to uncover the role of the aquatic environments in the emergence, evolution, and dissemination of AMR.
This Research Topic aims to deliver state-of-the-art knowledge and ideas on the role of the aquatic environments on the selection, maintenance, and transmission of AMR determinants. The main themes of the topic include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Detection and tracking of emerging drug-resistant bacteria in aquatic ecosystems.
• Metagenomic studies of the resistome of microbial communities impacted by anthropogenic activities in aquatic context.
• Influence of raw and treated sewage or sludge as fertilizer on the aquatic resistome.
• New experimental approaches in aquatic resistome research.
• Aquaculture and dissemination of AMR and ARGs.
• Urbanization as a principal contributor of AMR and ARGs in water masses (rivers, lakes, ocean).
• Climate change as a driver of the dissemination of AMR and ARGs in water masses.
• The role of aquatic environments in “One Health” and “Global Health” contexts.
• New technologies to combat the dissemination of AMR and ARGs in wastewater treatment systems.
• The fates of AMR and ARGs in reclaimed water.
• Dissemination vectors of ARGs in aquatic environments.
