| Title | Black soldier fly-based bioconversion of biosolids: Microbial community dynamics and fate of antibiotic resistance genes |
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| ID_Doc | 14957 |
| Authors | Bohm, K; Taylor, W; Gyawali, P; Pattis, I; Ginés, MJG |
| Title | Black soldier fly-based bioconversion of biosolids: Microbial community dynamics and fate of antibiotic resistance genes |
| Year | 2024 |
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| Abstract | Biosolids as by-products of wastewater treatment can contain a large spectrum of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Insect-based bioconversion using black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) is an emerging technology that has shown to reduce significant amounts of biosolids quickly and produce larvae biomass containing low heavy metal concentrations. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first study investigating the transfer of pathogens and ARGs from biosolids into the process' end-products, BSFL and frass. We hypothesized that BSF-based bioconversion can decrease the abundance of pathogenic bacteria and ARGs in biosolids. In this study, we performed BSFL feeding trials with biosolids blended or not blended with wheat bran, and wheat bran alone as a low bioburden diet (control). We conducted 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to monitor changes of the BSFL-associated microbial community and the fate of biosolids-associated pathogens. A diverse set of ARGs (ermB, intl1, sul1, tetA, tetQ, tetW, and blaCTX-M-32) were quantified by qPCR and were linked to changes in substrate- and BSFL-associated microbiomes. BSF-based bioconversion of biosolids-containing substrates led to a significant reduction of the microbial diversity, the abundance of several pathogenic bacteria and the investigated ARGs (< 99 %). Feeding with a high bioburden biosolid diet resulted in a higher microbial diversity, and the accumulation of pathogenic bacteria and ARGs in the BSFL. Results of this study demonstrated that BS-Fbased bioconversion can be a suitable waste management technology to (1) reduce significant amounts of biosolids and (2) reduce the presence of pathogens and ARGs. However, the resulting larvae biomass would need to undergo further post -treatment to reduce the pathogenic load to allow them as animal feed. |
| https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172823 |
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