Characterization of tetracycline resistant bacterial community in saline activated sludge using batch stress incubation with high-throughput sequencing analysis

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 4207-4216

  Li, Bing ^a   Zhang, Xuxiang ^a   Guo, Feng ^a   Wu, Weimin ^b   Zhang, Tong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance genes; Antibiotic resistant bacteria; Next generation sequencing; Sewage treatment plant; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CLONE CELLS; CLONING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; HEAVY METALS; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING; RELATIVE DEVIATIONS; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIA;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INNOVATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE TREATMENT;

ACCURACY; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALGORIPHAGUS; ALISHEWANELLA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BATCH STRESS INCUBATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HALIEA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IDIOMARINA; MICROBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS; PARACOCCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDORHODOBACTER; RHEINHEIMERA; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANT BACTERIA;

ALGORIPHAGUS; ALISHEWANELLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); IDIOMARINA; MICROBACTERIUM; PARACOCCUS (BACTERIUM); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDORHODOBACTER; RHEINHEIMERA;

EID: 84879023906     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.04.021     Document Type: Article

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