INTRODUCTION

Soil microbial communities (SMCs) play an important role in various biogeochemical processes including decomposition of organic matter, nutrient recycling, remediation of the soil, and regulation of soil fertility in terrestrial ecosystems [1,2]. Recently published records on soil microbial communities have shown that they are highly sensitive to environmental changes [3] related to biotic and abiotic factors which can contribute to the countless individual microbial taxa, as well as viruses that can be found and isolated in a gram of soil [4]. In another perspective, SMCs may somehow contribute to the increasing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) due to both intrinsic and extrinsic resistome, that are capable of horizontal transmission to clinically-associated pathogens [5,6,7]. While soil environments already contain vast amounts of native resistome, anthropogenic activities such as agriculture & waste treatment are also known to enrich the soil resistome [5,7,8].