Correlation between upstream human activities and riverine antibiotic resistance genes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 11541-11549

  Pruden, Amy ^a,b   Arabi, Mazdak ^b   Storteboom, Heather N ^b  

^a State University   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; GENERAL LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS (GLM); GEO-SPATIAL DATABASE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN HEALTH; LANDSCAPE FEATURE; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIVER MONITORING; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOUTH PLATTE RIVER; TRANSPORT PATHWAYS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER ENVIRONMENTS; WATER-PATHWAY;

DISEASE CONTROL; FEEDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE WATERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANIMALS;

SULFONAMIDE; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CORRELATION; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; FISH; GENE; LAGOON; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATERSHED;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COLORADO; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; RIVERS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SOUTH PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84868578288     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302657r     Document Type: Article

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