Marine particulate matter serves as a hotspot for enriching pathogenic bacteria and disseminating antibiotic resistance genes.
In coastal ecosystems, free-living (FLB) and particle-attached bacteria (PAB) occupy distinct niches, but their pathogenic and antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) reservoirs are lacking. Using molecular approaches, we compared the composition, pathogenic diversity, ARGs abundance, and microbial interactions of FLB and PAB...