Quaternary ammonium disinfectants: Microbial adaptation,Degradation and ecology

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages 296-304

  Tezel, Ulas ^a   Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; DISINFECTANTS; ECOLOGY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

BIOTRANSFORMATION PRODUCT; HEALTH STANDARDS; MICROBIAL ADAPTATION; MICROBIAL LOADS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUND; TREATED WASTEWATER;

EFFLUENTS;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZALKONIUM CHLORIDE; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CETRIMIDE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; NOVOBIOCIN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOFILM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EFFLUENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REVIEW; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISINFECTANTS; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84926652573     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2015.03.018     Document Type: Review

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