Increased waterborne bla NDM-1 resistance gene abundances associated with seasonal human pilgrimages to the Upper Ganges River

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3014-3020

  Ahammad, Z S ^a,b   Sreekrishnan, T R ^b   Hands, C L ^a   Knapp, C W ^c   Graham, D W ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; COLIFORM BACTERIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GENES; WASTE TREATMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGING COUNTRIES; FECAL COLIFORM; LOCAL RESIDENTS; MANAGEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE; RESISTANCE GENES; SEDIMENTS AND WATERS;

RIVERS;

METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE 1; RIVER WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE NDM-1; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; RIVER POLLUTION; SANITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; RESIDENT; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETICS; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

DELHI; GANGES RIVER; INDIA; YAMUNA RIVER;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INDIA; RIVERS; SEASONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84895516368     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405348h     Document Type: Article

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