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Title: Estudio del resistoma del compost: identificación de genes bacterianos resistentes a antibióticos
Author: Durana Sarria, Aritz
Tutor: Pizarro Tobías, Paloma
Others: Merino, David  
Abstract: The extensive use of antibiotics during the last decades, both in humans and farm animals, has promoted the appearance of many antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs). This is a worrying health issue because it is increasingly difficult to treat bacterial infections efficiently due to the spread of bacteria with ARGs. Among the different strategies to control and manage the presence of these ARGs in the environment, composting of manure of animals treated with antibiotics is one of them. Using this technique it is possible to reduce the proliferation and the impact of the ARGs, so it would be interesting to know the genomic composition of the compost. In this work the distribution of ARGs in different compost samples is studied using next-generation sequencing data. First a database of ARGs was generated based on literature data. Then, several metagenomes from compost samples were selected and lastly, the reads present in these metagenomes were aligned to the genes in the database. Preliminary results show that the most frequent resistances in genes (aminoglycoside, tetracycline, multidrug) are similar in all the different cases studied. They are widely known types of resistance due to their clinical incidence. Even though it was not possible to complete the initial planning, it was possible to identify a high number of ARGs in compost samples, which is indicative of the ubiquity of the resistant genes in the environment.
Keywords: resistoma
compost
metagenoma
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jan-2021
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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