Year: 2022
Type: review
Abstract: during the winter. There was greater consistency in the types and abundances of ARGs throughout the seasons in urban areas. Human activity within indoor environments was also linked to increased ARG content (abundance, diversity, and concentration) in the air. Several studies found that human exposure to ARGs through inhalation was comparable to exposure through drinking water or ingesting soil. Detection of ARGs in air is a developing field, and differences in sampling and analysis methods reflect the many possible approaches to studying ARGs in air and make direct comparisons between studies difficult. Methodologies need to be standardized to facilitate identification of the dominant ARGs in the air, determine their major sources, and quantify the role of atmospheric transport in dissemination of ARGs in the environment. With such knowledge we can develop better policies and guidelines to limit the spread of antimicrobial resistance.
DOI: 10.1039/d2em00091a
Institution: Virginia Tech
Language: English
Subfield: Pollution
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: G2048546100, Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in the Atmosphere: Emissions and Exposure, PIRE: Halting Environmental Antimicrobial Resistance Dissemination (HEARD), NRT-HDR: Convergence at the Interfaces of Policy, Data Science, Environmental Science and Engineering to Combat the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance, NNCI: Virginia Tech National Center for Earth and Environmental Nanotechnology Infrastructure (NanoEarth), G638134349, Frameworks: Developing CyberInfrastructure for Waterborne Antibiotic Resistance Risk Surveillance (CI4-WARS), G820643289, G8290380423
OpenAlex ID: W4282926120