Antibiotic resistance gene abundances associated with waste discharges to the Almendares river near Havana, Cuba

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 418-424

  Graham, David W ^a   Olivares Rieumont, Susana ^b   Knapp, Charles W ^a   Lima, Lazaro ^b   Werner, David ^a   Bowen, Emma ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Instituto Superior de Tecnologias y Ciencias Aplicadas InSTEC   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALMENDARES RIVER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; HUMAN POPULATION; INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; POLLUTION EFFECTS; SOLID WASTE LANDFILL; WASTE DISCHARGES; WATER COLUMNS;

AGRICULTURE; AMIDES; ANTIBIOTICS; ARGON; GENES; HEAVY METALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOLID WASTES;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; LEAD; PENICILLIN G; RIVER WATER; TETRACYCLINE; ZINC;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEAVY METAL; LANDFILL; MITIGATION; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION DENSITY; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER COLUMN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CUBA; LANDFILL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEDIMENT; SOLID WASTE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WATER QUALITY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CUBA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; METALS, HEAVY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ALMENDARES RIVER; CIUDAD DE LA HABANA; CUBA; HAVANA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78651388260     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102473z     Document Type: Article

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