Increased levels of multiresistant bacteria and resistance genes after wastewater treatment and their dissemination into Lake Geneva, Switzerland

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue MAR, 2012, Pages

  Czekalski, Nadine ^a   Berthold, Tom ^b   Caucci, Serena ^b   Egli, Andrea ^a   Bürgmann, Helmut ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Aquatic; Environment; Pollution; qPCR; Sediment; Sewage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863675731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00106     Document Type: Article

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