Waste water treatment plants as redistributors of resistance genes in bacteria

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 135, Issue , 2010, Pages 83-94

  Gomez M ^a   Diaz M T ^a   Araujo, M ^b   Sueiro, R ^b   Garrido, J ^b  

^a Labaqua SA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

drug resistance; Enterobacteriaceae; ESBLs; hospital and urban sewage; vancomycin resistant enterococci; lactamases

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DRUG RESISTANCE; EFFLUENT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; WASTE FACILITY; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE;

EID: 78149326499     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WP100081     Document Type: Article

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