Mercury resistance in bacterial strains isolated from tailing ponds in a gold mining area near El Callao (Bolívar State, Venezuela)

Current Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-154

  Ball, María Mercedes ^a   Carrero, Pablo ^b   Castro, David ^a   Yarzábal, Luis Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^b Laboratorio de Espectroscopía Molecular   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GOLD; KANAMYCIN; MERCURY; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FRESH WATER; GOLD; MERCURY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINING; PLASMIDS; VENEZUELA; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 33846268064     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0347-4     Document Type: Article

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