Listeria species incidence and characterisation in a river receiving town sewage from a sewage treatment plant

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 35, Issue 11-12, 1997, Pages 201-204

  Combarro, M P ^a   Gonzalez M ^b   Araujo, M ^b   Amezaga, A C ^b   Sueiro, R A ^b   Garrido, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Listeria species; Sewage treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; MICROORGANISMS; REMOVAL; RIVERS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; LISTERIA SPECIES;

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; LATAMOXEF; RIVER WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CONFERENCE PAPER; EFFLUENT; LISTERIA; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA IVANOVII; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIA SEELIGERI; LISTERIA WELSHIMERI;

EID: 1842336293     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(97)00259-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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