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Although vertical flow constructed wetlands (VFCWs) efficiently remove antibiotics from wastewater, the relationships between substrate configuration, microbial communities, and ARG abundance remain poorly understood. Here, five laboratory-scale VFCWs with different substrate configurations, including cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4)-modified biochar and its composite with zeolite, were evaluated using synthetic domestic wastewater amended with oxytetracycline (OTC). CoFe2O4 modification increased the specific surface area and pore volume of biochar and altered its adsorption behavior. All VFCWs achieved high OTC removal (&gt;97%), despite differences in OTC accumulation within the substrate. In contrast, ARG and mobile genetic element abundances and bacterial community profiles varied among reactors. Combined tetA and tetX abundance ranged from 2.55 \u00d7 102 to 1.90 \u00d7 105 copies g\u22121, with the CoFe2O4-modified biochar\u2013zeolite reactor showing the lowest mean ARG abundance. Exploratory co-occurrence analysis identified associations of Acinetobacter with tetA and Flavobacterium with tetA and tetX (nominal Spearman p &lt; 0.05), although these correlations do not establish ARG host identity or horizontal gene transfer. 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