Antibiotic and Heavy Metal Resistance in Marine Bacteria from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea): Insights from Wild Fish and Environmental Samples
Enrico Gugliandolo, Bilal Mghili, Francesca Fabrizi, Kannan Gunasekaran, Francesco Smedile, Francesca Inferrera, Sabrina Natale, Teresa Romeo, Erika Arcadi, Syed Sikandar Habib, Maurizio Azzaro, Teresa Bottari, Monique Mancuso · 2025
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Enrico Gugliandolo and co-authors surveyed drug and heavy metal resistance in marine bacteria from Terra Nova Bay in the Ross Sea in 2025. The Antarctic bay was long seen as near pristine, yet human influence there is growing. During an Italian expedition in 2021 and 2022, the team sampled seawater, sediment, and a local fish species.
Fifty bacterial isolates were tested against twenty-eight antibiotics, and a notable share resisted many drugs at once. Those resistant isolates were then checked for tolerance of eight heavy metal salts, to see if the traits travel together. Readers get a warning from the far south: resistance is present even where people are few, and fish and water both carry the signal.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Enrico Gugliandolo, Bilal Mghili, Francesca Fabrizi, Kannan Gunasekaran, Francesco Smedile, Francesca Inferrera, Sabrina Natale, Teresa Romeo, Erika Arcadi, Syed Sikandar Habib, Maurizio Azzaro, Teresa Bottari, Monique Mancuso |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 46 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |