Association of chlorination and UV irradiation to increasing antibiotic resistance in bacteria

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 171, Issue , 2001, Pages 1-52

  Rusin, Patricia ^a   Gerba, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0161-5_1     Document Type: Article

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