Beyond borders: plasmids drive a shared antibiotic resistome in European urban water systems
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Authors
- Joseph Nesme (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1929-5040)
- Asmus Kalckar Olesen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2480-6431)
- Barth F. Smets (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4119-6292)
- Søren Johannes Sørensen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6227-9906)
- Arnaud Dechesne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6638-2158)
- Zhuofeng Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9077-7662)
- Jonas Stenløkke Madsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4830-1796)
- Wanli He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1537-2048)
- Ziqi Wu
Institutions
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Aarhus University (DK)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Technical University of Denmark (DK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Microbiome
- Published
- 2026-01-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-025-02253-0
- Primary Topic
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance
- Novo Nordisk
- Danish e-Infrastructure Cooperation
- Novo Nordisk Fonden