Persistence and prevalence of pathogenic and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in municipal wastewater treatment plant receiving slaughterhouse wastewater

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4719-4729

  Diallo, Alpha Amadou ^a,b,c,d   Brugère, Hubert ^a,b,c   Kérourédan, Monique ^a,b,c   Dupouy, Véronique ^c,e   Toutain, Pierre Louis ^c,e   Bousquet Mélou, Alain ^c,e   Oswald, Eric ^a,b,f   Bibbal, Delphine ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d Institut Senegalais de Recherches AgrEcoles Dakar   (Senegal)

^e TOXALIM RESEARCH CENTRE IN FOOD TOXICOLOGY   (France)

^f CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

EHEC; ESBL producing E. coli; Escherichia coli; ExPEC; Wastewater treatment process

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANIMAL WASTEWATERS; E. COLI; EHEC; ENTEROPATHOGENIC E. COLI; EXPEC; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; SLAUGHTERHOUSE WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISCHARGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EFFLUENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PATHOGEN; PERSISTENCE; VIRULENCE; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EFFLUENT; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84879019386     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.04.047     Document Type: Article

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