A simplified low-cost approach to antibiotic resistance profiling for faecal source tracking

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 185-191

  Ebdon, J E ^a   Wallis, J L ^a   Taylor, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Classification; Faecal; Origin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GENES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; HOST SOURCE;

WATER QUALITY;

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; APRAMYCIN; CEFALOTIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NITROFURAL; NITROFURANTOIN; OFLOXACIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; POLLUTANT SOURCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WASTE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 4344667388     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2004.0052     Document Type: Article

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