Metagenomics shows that low-energy anaerobic-aerobic treatment reactors reduce antibiotic resistance gene levels from domestic wastewater

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2577-2584

  Christgen, Beate ^a   Yang, Ying ^b   Ahammad, S Z ^a,c   Li, Bing ^b   Rodriquez, D Catalina ^a,d   Zhang, Tong ^b   Graham, David W ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BIOREACTORS; DISEASES; EFFLUENTS; GENES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANAEROBIC HYBRID REACTORS; ANAEROBIC-AEROBIC TREATMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT GENES; DOMESTIC WASTE WATER TREATMENT; REACTOR CONFIGURATION; TREATMENT PERFORMANCE;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

ABUNDANCE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOREACTOR; ENERGY USE; GENOMICS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

AERATION; AEROBIC REACTOR; ANAEROBIC REACTOR; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; EFFLUENT; ENERGY; ENERGY USE; METAGENOMICS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PH; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOREACTOR; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE;

BIOREACTORS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; METAGENOMICS; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84923074079     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es505521w     Document Type: Article

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