Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance

Abstract Background Understanding environmental microbiomes and antibiotic resistance (AR) is hindered by over reliance on relative abundance data from next-generation sequencing. Relative data limits our ability to quantify changes in microbiomes and resistomes over space and time because sequencin...

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Autores principales: Amelie Ott, Marcos Quintela-Baluja, Andrew M. Zealand, Greg O’Donnell, Mohd Ridza Mohd Haniffah, David W. Graham
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:74485208c7914f9ba19f0eed31b171812021-11-21T12:27:12ZImproved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance10.1186/s40793-021-00391-02524-6372https://doaj.org/article/74485208c7914f9ba19f0eed31b171812021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-021-00391-0https://doaj.org/toc/2524-6372Abstract Background Understanding environmental microbiomes and antibiotic resistance (AR) is hindered by over reliance on relative abundance data from next-generation sequencing. Relative data limits our ability to quantify changes in microbiomes and resistomes over space and time because sequencing depth is not considered and makes data less suitable for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRA), critical in quantifying environmental AR exposure and transmission risks. Results Here we combine quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP; parallelization of amplicon sequencing and 16S rRNA qPCR to estimate cell counts) and absolute resistome profiling (based on high-throughput qPCR) to quantify AR along an anthropogenically impacted river. We show QMP overcomes biases caused by relative taxa abundance data and show the benefits of using unified Hill number diversities to describe environmental microbial communities. Our approach overcomes weaknesses in previous methods and shows Hill numbers are better for QMP in diversity characterisation. Conclusions Methods here can be adapted for any microbiome and resistome research question, but especially providing more quantitative data for QMRA and other environmental applications.Amelie OttMarcos Quintela-BalujaAndrew M. ZealandGreg O’DonnellMohd Ridza Mohd HaniffahDavid W. GrahamBMCarticleQuantitative microbiomeHill numbersAntibiotic resistanceQMRARiver waterSoutheast AsiaEnvironmental sciencesGE1-350MicrobiologyQR1-502ENEnvironmental Microbiome, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Quantitative microbiome
Hill numbers
Antibiotic resistance
QMRA
River water
Southeast Asia
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Microbiology
QR1-502
spellingShingle Quantitative microbiome
Hill numbers
Antibiotic resistance
QMRA
River water
Southeast Asia
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Microbiology
QR1-502
Amelie Ott
Marcos Quintela-Baluja
Andrew M. Zealand
Greg O’Donnell
Mohd Ridza Mohd Haniffah
David W. Graham
Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
description Abstract Background Understanding environmental microbiomes and antibiotic resistance (AR) is hindered by over reliance on relative abundance data from next-generation sequencing. Relative data limits our ability to quantify changes in microbiomes and resistomes over space and time because sequencing depth is not considered and makes data less suitable for Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessments (QMRA), critical in quantifying environmental AR exposure and transmission risks. Results Here we combine quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP; parallelization of amplicon sequencing and 16S rRNA qPCR to estimate cell counts) and absolute resistome profiling (based on high-throughput qPCR) to quantify AR along an anthropogenically impacted river. We show QMP overcomes biases caused by relative taxa abundance data and show the benefits of using unified Hill number diversities to describe environmental microbial communities. Our approach overcomes weaknesses in previous methods and shows Hill numbers are better for QMP in diversity characterisation. Conclusions Methods here can be adapted for any microbiome and resistome research question, but especially providing more quantitative data for QMRA and other environmental applications.
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author Amelie Ott
Marcos Quintela-Baluja
Andrew M. Zealand
Greg O’Donnell
Mohd Ridza Mohd Haniffah
David W. Graham
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Marcos Quintela-Baluja
Andrew M. Zealand
Greg O’Donnell
Mohd Ridza Mohd Haniffah
David W. Graham
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title Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
title_short Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
title_full Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
title_fullStr Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
title_full_unstemmed Improved quantitative microbiome profiling for environmental antibiotic resistance surveillance
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publisher BMC
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/74485208c7914f9ba19f0eed31b17181
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