Unregulated use of antibiotics in Siliguri city vis-a-vis occurrence of MAR bacteria in community waste water and river Mahananda, and their potential for resistance gene transfer

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-238

  Mukherjee, Shriparna ^a   Bhadra, Bhaskar ^a   Chakraborty, Ratna ^a   Gurung, Anirudra ^a   Some, Sudip ^a   Chakraborty, Ranadhir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Gene transfer; Multiple antibiotic resistance; Self transmissible R plasmids

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; NORFLOXACIN; RIVER WATER; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIAL DISEASE; TOLERANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; NONHUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZATION; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 16344367088     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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