Occurrence, abundance, and diversity of tetracycline resistance genes in 15 sewage treatment plants across china and other global locations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2598-2604

  Zhang, Xu Xiang ^a   Zhang, Tong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTERS; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BAUMANNII; BLAST ANALYSIS; DNA CLONING; GENBANK; PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; RESISTANCE GENES; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SIX GENES; SLUDGE SAMPLES;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CLONING; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

GENES;

TETRACYCLINE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; GENE; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; CHINA; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SLUDGE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE GENE;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEWAGE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

CHINA;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 79953240174     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es103672x     Document Type: Article

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