Sludge as a potential important source of antibiotic resistance genes in both the bacterial and bacteriophage fractions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 7602-7611

  Calero Cáceres, William ^a   Melgarejo, Ana ^a   Colomer Lluch, Marta ^a   Stoll, Claudia ^b   Lucena, Francisco ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b DVGW Technologiezentrum Wasser   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGRICULTURAL USE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; DIGESTED SLUDGES; GLOBAL HEALTH; SECONDARY TREATMENT; TREATMENT PROCESS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

SLUDGE DIGESTION;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; COLIPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PURIFICATION; SLUDGE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CITIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FLOCCULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; SEWAGE; SPAIN; VIRION; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84903718942     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es501851s     Document Type: Article

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