Abundance of six tetracycline resistance genes in wastewater lagoons at cattle feedlots with different antibiotic use strategies

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-151

  Peak, Nicholas ^a   Knapp, Charles W ^a   Yang, Richard K ^a,b   Hanfelt, Margery M ^c   Smith, Marilyn S ^b   Aga, Diana S ^d   Graham, David W ^a  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATTLE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33846097291     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01123.x     Document Type: Article

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