A comprehensive insight into tetracycline resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in activated sludge using next-generation sequencing

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 10083-10100

  Huang, Kailong ^a   Tang, Junying ^a   Zhang, Xu Xiang ^a   Xu, Ke ^a   Ren, Hongqiang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

454 pyrosequencing; Antibiotic resistance genes; Antibiotic resistant bacteria; Metagenomic analysis; Sewage treatment plant; Tetracycline

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; RNA 16S; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL RNA; SEWAGE;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FIRMICUTES; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYPHOMICROBIUM; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCUS; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PLANCTOMYCETES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOBACTER; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; VERRUCOMICROBIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEWAGE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; METAGENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 84902001379     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms150610083     Document Type: Article

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