West Siberian Soil Resistome: Mobile Antibiotic Resistance in Agricultural Microbiomes
Anna Evgenevna Skotareva, Ekaterina Alexeevna Sokolova, Elena Nikolaevna Voronina · 2026
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Anna Skotareva, Ekaterina Sokolova, and Elena Voronina published a 2026 study mapping antibiotic resistance genes in farm soils of southern West Siberia. Farm soil naturally holds resistance genes and the mobile elements that can pass them to other bacteria, a possible route into clinics. The region grows grain for the world but had no such map. The team took twelve soil samples across seven crop types and read their DNA with shotgun sequencing.
Resistance load was moderate, matching farm systems with little organic fertilizer. Pump genes that eject drugs dominated the resistance set. A key gene-shuffling element appeared in every sample, and resistance genes sat next to mobile elements in eleven of twelve samples. One sample showed several separate transfer events spanning five drug classes. The study sets a baseline for watching resistance in this grain belt.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anna Evgenevna Skotareva, Ekaterina Alexeevna Sokolova, Elena Nikolaevna Voronina |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |