Manure and sulfadiazine synergistically increased bacterial antibiotic resistance in soil over at least two months

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 657-666

  Heuer, Holger ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SUL1 PROTEIN, E COLI; SUL2 PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SUL3 PROTEIN, E COLI; SULFADIAZINE; SULFONAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MANURE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; INTEGRONS; MANURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SULFADIAZINE; SULFONAMIDES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 33846948962     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01185.x     Document Type: Article

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