reviewNature CommunicationsApr 20, 2020GOLD OA

Aquaculture at the crossroads of global warming and antimicrobial resistance

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · +5 more institutions

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Abstract

In many developing countries, aquaculture is key to ensuring food security for millions of people. It is thus important to measure the full implications of environmental changes on the sustainability of aquaculture. We conduct a double meta-analysis (460 articles) to explore how global warming and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) impact aquaculture. We calculate a Multi-Antibiotic Resistance index (MAR) of aquaculture-related bacteria (11,274 isolates) for 40 countries, of which mostly low- and middle-income countries present high AMR levels. Here we show that aquaculture MAR indices correlate with MAR indices from human clinical bacteria, temperature and countries' climate vulnerability. We also find that…

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Keywords
  • Antibiotic resistance
  • Antimicrobial
  • Aquaculture
  • Resistance (ecology)
  • Biology
  • Fishery
  • Fish <Actinopterygii>
  • Ecology
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