Tetracycline Resistance Gene Maintenance under Varying Bacterial Growth Rate, Substrate and Oxygen Availability, and Tetracycline Concentration

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 6995-7001

  Rysz, Michal ^a   Mansfield, William R ^b   Fortner, John D ^c   Alvarez, Pedro J J ^b  

^a GSI Environmental Inc   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; ANTIBIOTIC CONCENTRATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPONSE VARIABILITY; SUBSTRATE AVAILABILITIES;

ANTIBIOTICS; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GROWTH RATE; MAINTENANCE; STRAIN;

BACTERIA;

DNA 16S; OXYGEN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGEN; PLASMID; REDOX CONDITIONS; REPRODUCTION; RESERVOIR; SUBSTRATE;

AEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTINUOUS CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OXYGEN; PLASMIDS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 84880108657     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3035329     Document Type: Article

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