Fate of antibiotic resistance genes and class 1 integrons in soil microcosms following the application of treated residual municipal wastewater solids

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 5620-5627

  Burch, Tucker R ^a   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a   LaPara, Timothy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; DECAY (ORGANIC); EXPERIMENTS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOILS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; CLASS 1 INTEGRONS; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; LAND APPLICATIONS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FACILITY; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TREATED WASTEWATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

INTEGRASE; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; MICROCOSM; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; REACTION KINETICS; SANDY LOAM; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; INTEGRON; KINETICS; LOAM SOIL; MICROCOSM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SANDY SOIL; SIMULATION; SOIL; SOLID; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CITIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; KINETICS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84901049704     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501098g     Document Type: Article

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