Hongwei Sun , Jing Hu , Baoyan Wang , Guorong Wang , Yucan Liu , Xiaoyong Yang , Gang Wang , Yanxiang Zhang , Jing Ding , Xintao Lv , Zhiming Qu , Shujun Zhang
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Short-chain PFAS in coastal sediments: PFBS-driven antimicrobial resistance and pathogen risks
Coastal sediments serve as reservoirs for emerging contaminants, like perfluorobutane sulfonic acid (PFBS), antibiotic resistomes, and pathogens, posing risks to marine ecosystems and public health. Here, we investigate the effects of PFBS on antimicrobial resistance and pathogen dynamics in sediments through metagenomics. Our findings show that coastal sediments contain various antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and bacterial pathogens, with PFBS exposure significantly altering their abundance and composition. PFBS exposure increased ARGs (34.44 %–51.11 %) and MGEs (42.96 %–52.96 %). Importantly, high-risk vanY (vanB culuster) (1.37-fold) and vanYG1 (1.21-fold), were considerably enriched. Additionally, among 1190 detected pathogens, 67 emerging pathogens were extensively shared across all 28 samples. Notably, prevalent T. pallidum (9.69-fold) and S. pneumoniae (3.82-fold) exhibited the most pronounce increases in PFBS-exposed sediments. Further analysis revealed that 24.67 % of the pathogens co-harbored both ARGs and MGEs, amplifying resistance dissemination and pathogen virulence. Remarkably, emerging M. smegmatis and Y. pseudotuberculosis, harboring the predominant high-risk vanY (vanM cluster), pose a critical antimicrobial threat to coastal ecosystems. These results underscore PFBS as a key driver of antimicrobial resistance and pathogenic proliferation in coastal sediments, highlighting the urgent need for further insight into the effects of short-chain PFAS on marine ecological security.
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Water Research, along with its open access companion journal Water Research X, serves as a platform for publishing original research papers covering various aspects of the science and technology related to the anthropogenic water cycle, water quality, and its management worldwide. The audience targeted by the journal comprises biologists, chemical engineers, chemists, civil engineers, environmental engineers, limnologists, and microbiologists. The scope of the journal include:
•Treatment processes for water and wastewaters (municipal, agricultural, industrial, and on-site treatment), including resource recovery and residuals management;
•Urban hydrology including sewer systems, stormwater management, and green infrastructure;
•Drinking water treatment and distribution;
•Potable and non-potable water reuse;
•Sanitation, public health, and risk assessment;
•Anaerobic digestion, solid and hazardous waste management, including source characterization and the effects and control of leachates and gaseous emissions;
•Contaminants (chemical, microbial, anthropogenic particles such as nanoparticles or microplastics) and related water quality sensing, monitoring, fate, and assessment;
•Anthropogenic impacts on inland, tidal, coastal and urban waters, focusing on surface and ground waters, and point and non-point sources of pollution;
•Environmental restoration, linked to surface water, groundwater and groundwater remediation;
•Analysis of the interfaces between sediments and water, and between water and atmosphere, focusing specifically on anthropogenic impacts;
•Mathematical modelling, systems analysis, machine learning, and beneficial use of big data related to the anthropogenic water cycle;
•Socio-economic, policy, and regulations studies.