ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE PROFILE OF METALLURGY IMPACTED SOILS IN EAST KAZAKHSTAN
IIndustrial soils that are persistently polluted with heavy metals are considered as sources of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). However, the mechanisms and magnitude of this effect, especially with regard to long-read metagenomics, have not been well studied. As a part of this study, whole-metagenome sequencing was...