Studies show that various human pathogens cling to microplastics in seawater.
—can attach to microplastics in seawater. This could be altering where, when, and how these parasites accumulate in the ocean.
The next step, Shapiro explains, is to look for a similar association between parasites and plastics outside the lab. “We don’t know that much about it,” Vos says, “but there’s potentially interesting ways in which bacteria can experience stronger selection [for antimicrobial resistance] on plastics, but also have more opportunity to exchange genes that could confer resistance.”
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