Wastewater treatment plants release large amounts of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing escherichia coli into the environment

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1658-1665

  Bréchet, Caroline ^a   Plantin, Julie ^a   Sauget, Marlène ^a   Thouverez, Michelle ^a   Talon, Daniel ^a   Cholley, Pascal ^a   Guyeux, Christophe ^a   Hocquet, Didier ^a   Bertrand, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

environmental risk; multidrug resistant bacteria; sequence types; sludge; WWTP

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; BETA LACTAMASE; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; RIVER; SEWAGE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CITIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; SEWAGE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84901797148     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu190     Document Type: Article

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