Effects of advanced treatment systems on the removal of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants from Hangzhou, China

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8157-8163

  Chen, Hong ^a   Zhang, Mingmei ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BIOLOGICAL AERATED FILTER; CONSTRUCTED WETLANDS; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES; ULTRAVIOLET DISINFECTIONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

BIOFILTERS; DISINFECTION; GENES; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WETLANDS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DNA 16S;

AERATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOFILTRATION; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DISINFECTION; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; SAMPLING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BIOFILTER; BIOSOLID; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DISINFECTION; OXIDATION; REDUCTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

CHINA; HANGZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

CHINA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION; WETLANDS;

EID: 84881472174     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es401091y     Document Type: Article

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