An investigation into the effects of silver nanoparticles on antibiotic resistance of naturally occurring bacteria in an estuarine sediment

Marine Environmental Research

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 278-283

  Mühling, Martin ^a   Bradford, Adam ^a,b   Readman, James W ^a   Somerfield, Paul J ^a   Handy, Richard D ^b  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacteria; Marine; Metal resistance; Nanoparticle; Nanosilver; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL EFFECTS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AVERAGE DIAMETER; BACTERIA-RESISTANT; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BACTERIAL SPECIES; COASTAL MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ENGLAND; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS; EXPOSURE PERIOD; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARINE; METAL RESISTANCE; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; NANOSILVER; NATURALLY OCCURRING; NO-OBSERVED-EFFECT-CONCENTRATIONS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; ESTUARIES; EXPERIMENTS; MARINE POLLUTION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; NANOPARTICLES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SILVER;

AMMONIA; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; NANOPARTICLE; NITRATE; NITRITE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PHOSPHATE; SEA WATER; SILICATE; SILVER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFADIAZINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; MICROCOSM; POLLUTION EFFECT; SEAWATER; SEDIMENT CORE; SILVER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARINE SPECIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PH; SALINITY; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; SEAWATER; SILVER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 69549116459     PISSN: 01411136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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