This week we have started sampling several agricultural soils from Navarra, as part of a new study carried out in collaboration with Sandra Blázquez from EDAR Arazuri (Navarra). In this case, we will study the potential impact of the application of sewage sludge on the presence of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements in agricultural soil. To this purpose, we will use high-throughput qPCR to simultaneously analyse a great variety of antibiotic resistance genes. This is a new field for SMEG. Exciting!!
