Beach sand plastispheres are hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes and potentially pathogenic bacteria even in beaches with good water quality
Emily Amorim Magalhães, Hugo Emiliano de Jesus, Pedro Henrique Freitas Pereira, Abı́lio Soares-Gomes, Henrique Fragoso dos Santos
Topics & Concepts
MicroplasticsBiologySupralittoral zoneAntibiotic resistancePathogenic bacteriaAbundance (ecology)MetagenomicsMarine bacteriophageEcologyPyrosequencingMicrobial population biologyBacteriaMicrobiologyAntibioticsIntertidal zoneGeneGeneticsMicroplastics and Plastic PollutionPharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental ImpactsEnvironmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies