[Microbial Community Structure and the Distribution of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil Contaminated by Sulfamethoxazole].

A pot experiment was carried out to simulate soil contaminated by sulfamethoxazole at different concentrations. The community structure of soil microorganisms was investigated using Illumina high-throughput sequencing, and 64 subtypes of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) resistant to six classes of antibiotic were also analyzed by PCR and droplet digital PCR. The results showed that soil contamination with sulfamethoxazole had no significant effect on fungal diversity after 120 days (P>0.05) whereas bacterial diversity was significantly reduced (P<0.05). The microbial community structure of the contaminated soil changed significantly, with the dominant bacterial and fungal genera being significantly different from the control soil. Sulfamethoxazole contamination resulted in an increase in ARG diversity, and the abundance of the sulfonamide resistance gene sul1 increased significantly (P<0.05). However, the abundance of the sulfonamide resistance gene sul2, the quinolone resistance genes floR and cmlA1, and the tetracycline resistance genes tet(34), tetG2, tetG1,tetM, and tetA/P did not show significant changes in the contaminated soil (P>0.05).