The DOI matches its Crossref record; 6 of the 6 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Potential risks of microplastics combined with superbugs: Enrichment of antibiotic resistant bacteria on the surface of microplastics in mariculture system
Open accessAbstract
Microplastics have become emerging pollutants and served as potential vectors for harmful bacteria, while rare information on the emergency and propagation of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) on the surface of microplastics is available. This study investigated the enrichment of ARB, especially multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria (MARB), on the surface of microplastics in mariculture system. Polyethylene terephthalate accounted for the highest proportion (75%) in the collected microplastics. The counts of cultivable ARB in microplastic samples were 6.40 × 106-2.48 × 108 cfu/g, which were 100-5000 times higher than those in water samples. The ratios of cultivable ARB to total cultivable bacteria from microplastic samples were higher than those from water samples. High-throughput sequencing showed that the diversity and abundance of cultivable ARB in the microplastic samples was high with the predominant bacterial genera of Vibrio, Muricauda and Ruegeria. Total 160 MARB isolates were obtained and most of isolates were obtained from the microplastic samples. MARB isolates resisting or intermediating to four and three antibiotics accounted for much higher proportions in the microplastic samples, and the higher percentage of antibiotic resistance was to penicillin, sulfafurazole, erythromycin and tetracycline. The dominant multiple antibiotic resistance profile was TET-SFX-ERY-PEN, which accounted for 25.4% in microplastic samples and 23.9% in water samples. In typical MARB isolates, the positive detection rate of ARGs was up to 80.0% in microplastic samples while that was 65.3% in water samples. Five types of class 1 integrons (intI1) associated gene cassette arrays and seven types of gene cassettes were detected in microplastic samples, which were more than those in water samples. These results revealed that microplastics were hazardous pollutants for the enrichment of ARB, especially superbugs, and the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Hidalgo-Ruz, V., Gutow, L., Thompson, R. C., & Thiel, M. (2012) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/es2031505 · Cited by 5,440
The Physical Impacts of Microplastics on Marine Organisms: A Review
Wright, S. L., Thompson, R. C., & Galloway, T. S. (2013) · Environmental Pollution · doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2013.02.031 · Cited by 4,524
Life in the “plastisphere”: microbial communities on plastic marine debris
Zettler, E. R., Mincer, T. J., & Amaral-Zettler, L. A. (2013) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/es401288x · Cited by 3,368 · cited 2×
“, 2013), chemical (Rochman, 2013, 2015) and biological (Kiessling et al., 2015; Zettler et al., 2013) hazard to ecological environment (Frias et al.”
BackgroundLusher, A. L., Tirelli, V., O’Connor, I., & Officer, R. (2015) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/srep14947 · Cited by 1,170
Browne, M. A., Niven, S. J., Galloway, T. S., Rowland, S. J., & Thompson, R. C. (2013) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.10.012 · Cited by 1,160
Early microbial biofilm formation on marine plastic debris
Lobelle, D., & Cunliffe, M. (2011) · Marine Pollution Bulletin · doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.10.013 · Cited by 962
Cited by
Marine Plastic Debris: A New Surface for Microbial Colonization
Wright, R. J., Erni-Cassola, G., Zadjelovic, V., Latva, M., & Christie-Oleza, J. A. (2020) · Environmental Science & Technology · doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c02305 · Cited by 513
Zheng, D., Yin, G., Liu, M., Chen, C., Jiang, Y., Hou, L., & Zheng, Y. (2021) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146009 · Cited by 348
The effects of three different microplastics on enzyme activities and microbial communities in soil
Yi, M., Zhou, S., Zhang, L., & Ding, S. (2021) · Water Environment Research · doi:10.1002/wer.1327 · Cited by 341
Microplastics are a hotspot for antibiotic resistance genes: Progress and perspective
Liu, Y., Liu, W., Yang, X., Wang, J., Lin, H., & Yang, Y. (2021) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145643 · Cited by 282
Self-citationWang, Y., Wang, X., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Sun, Y., Hansen, H. C. B., Xia, S., & Zhao, J. (2022) · Chemical Engineering Journal · doi:10.1016/j.cej.2021.130478 · Cited by 46
Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, Y., Lu, J., Wu, J., Wang, J., & Luo, Y.
- Venue
- Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-01
- Volume
- 187
- Pages
- 109852
- ISSN
- 0147-6513 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2981969936
- Cited by
- 347
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 8.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Potential risks of microplastics combined with superbugs: Enrichment of antibiotic resistant bacteria on the surface of microplastics in mariculture system. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109852
- The paper
- Zhang, Y., Lu, J., Wu, J., Wang, J., & Luo, Y. (2020). Potential risks of microplastics combined with superbugs: Enrichment of antibiotic resistant bacteria on the surface of microplastics in mariculture system. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.109852
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
