Sewage treatment plant serves as a hot-spot reservoir of integrons and gene cassettes

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages 391-399

  Ma, Liping ^a   Zhang, Xu Xiang ^a   Zhao, Fuzheng ^a   Wu, Bing ^a   Cheng, Shupei ^a   Yang, Liuyan ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance gene; Bacterial strains; Class 1 integron; Gene cassette; Mobile gene element; Sewage treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM; EFFLUENT; GENE EXPRESSION; SEWAGE TREATMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84880206065     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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