Shotgun metagenomics reveals a wide array of antibiotic resistance genes and mobile elements in a polluted lake in India

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Bengtsson Palme, Johan ^a   Boulund, Fredrik ^b   Fick, Jerker ^c   Kristiansson, Erik ^b   Joakim Larsson, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; Lake sediment; Metagenomics; Mobile genetic elements; Pharmaceutical pollution; Plasmids

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT; INTEGRASE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFANILAMIDE; TRANSPOSASE; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; LAKE; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOBILIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANCTOMYCETALES; PLASMID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84920668996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00648     Document Type: Article

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