Underappreciated role of regionally poor water quality on globally increasing antibiotic resistance

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 11746-11747

  Graham, David W ^a   Collignon, Peter ^b   Davies, Julian ^c   Larsson, D G Joakim ^d   Snape, Jason ^e  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^e ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; NOTE; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84908139096     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es504206x     Document Type: Note

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