Sulphonamide and trimethoprim resistance genes persist in sediments at Baltic Sea aquaculture farms but are not detected in the surrounding environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Muziasari, Windi Indra ^a   Managaki, Satoshi ^b   Pärnänen, Katariina ^a   Karkman, Antti ^a   Lyra, Christina ^a   Tamminen, Manu ^a   Suzuki, Satoru ^c   Virta, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DFRA1 GENE; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVIRONMENT; FINLAND; FISH DISEASE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; INTI1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEDIMENT; SUL1 GENE; SUL2 GENE;

AQUACULTURE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FINLAND; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIOTA; SULFANILAMIDES; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 84908541773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092702     Document Type: Article

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