Enterococcus faecalis gene transfer under natural conditions in municipal sewage water treatment plants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 626-632

  Marcinek, Herbert ^a   Wirth, Reinhard ^a   Muscholl Silberhorn, Albrecht ^a   Gauer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CALCULATIONS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIA; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; SEX PHEROMONE PLASMIDS;

COLIFORM BACTERIA;

SEX PHEROMONE;

BACTERIUM; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032005379     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.2.626-632.1998     Document Type: Article

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