Antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial and bacteriophage fractions of Tunisian and Spanish wastewaters as markers to compare the antibiotic resistance patterns in each population

Environment International

Volumn 73, Issue , 2014, Pages 167-175

  Colomer Lluch, Marta ^a   Calero Cáceres, William ^a   Jebri, Sihem ^b   Hmaied, Fatma ^b   Muniesa, Maite ^a   Jofre, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Centre National des Sciences et Technologies Nucleaires Tunis   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacteriophages; Quinolones; Sewage water; Sul1; lactamases

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; AMIDES; DNA; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; LACTAMASES; QUINOLONES; SEWAGE WATER; SUL1;

DNA; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; BETA LACTAMASE TEM 1; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; GENETIC MARKER; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SEWAGE; SULFONAMIDE; VIRUS DNA; WASTE WATER; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE TEM; METICILLIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 2A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE; GENETIC MARKER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; BIOMARKER; SEWAGE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARG GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; MECA GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRA GENE; QNRS GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPAIN; TUNISIA; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARMA GENE; BACTERIUM; BLACTX M GENE; BLATEM GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUL1 GENE; WATER ANALYSIS;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; SPAIN; TUNISIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENETIC MARKERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUINOLONES; SEWAGE; SPAIN; SULFONAMIDES; TUNISIA; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84907331158     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2014.07.003     Document Type: Article

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