Table 2.
Pearson correlations between ARG types in bacterial and phage DNA for each antibiotic class at four water-sampling sites.
| Samples | Bacterial DNA/phage DNA |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Influent water | Aerobic-anaerobic | Effluent water | Pond water | |
| Tetracycline | 0.533∗∗(n = 66α) | 0.976∗∗(n = 66) | 0.483∗∗(n = 78) | 0.977∗∗(n = 39) |
| Macrolide | 0.616∗∗(n = 75) | 0.905∗∗(n = 60) | 0.073 (n = 72) | 0.723∗∗(n = 24) |
| Aminoglycoside | 0.893∗∗(n = 96) | 0.978∗∗(n = 84) | 0.809∗∗(n = 99) | 0.949∗∗(n = 42) |
| Phenicol | 0.686∗∗(n = 36) | 0.868∗∗(n = 36) | 0.724∗∗(n = 36) | 0.822∗∗(n = 15) |
| Sulphonamide | 0.715∗(n = 9) | 0.738∗(n = 9) | 0.188(n = 9) | 0.636(n = 9) |
| β-lactamase | 0.515∗(n = 39) | 0.822∗(n = 33) | 0.649∗∗(n = 39) | NCβ(n = 3) |
| Others | NC | NC | NC | NC |
αN, The number of ARGs that were co-detected both in bacterial DNA and phage DNA, βNC, not calculated because of the absence of ARGs co-occurrence, ∗P < 0.05, ∗∗P < 0.01.