Aquatic insects as a vector for antibiotic resistant gene-bearing bacteria
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) are commonly detected in microbes from effluents emanating from municipal wastewater lagoons on the Canadian Prairies. Previous studies have reported the detection of ARGs on insects in agricultural areas. I hypothesized that insects emerging from wastewater lagoons could be a vector for the transfer of microbes bearing ARGs to surrounding environments. To test our hypothesis, I conducted a semi-controlled, field-based mesocosm study at the Prairie Wetland Research Facility, as well as a field study at the Dunnottar, MB wastewater lagoons. At each site, emergence traps were set up to capture insects and water samples were collected to analyze for ARGs and associated antibiotics. I was unable to measure ARGs or 16S-rRNA in insects emerging from the systems. I concluded that, because I were unable to measure 16S-rRNA or sulfonamide resistant genes in the emerged insects, they are likely not a significant source of ARGs to the wider environment.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it