Effects of 100 years wastewater irrigation on resistance genes, class 1 integrons and IncP-1 plasmids in Mexican soil

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Jechalke, Sven ^a   Broszat, Melanie ^b,c   Lang, Friederike ^c   Siebe, Christina ^d   Smalla, Kornelia ^a   Grohmann, Elisabeth ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside resistance; Class 1 integrons; IncP 1 plasmids; Quaternary ammonium compound resistance; Tetracycline resistance; Wastewater irrigation

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; RNA 16S; ZINC;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BIOMASS; CLASS 1 INTEGRON GENE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE; INCP 1 PLASMID GENE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MEXICAN; NONHUMAN; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUND RESISTANCE GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA 16S GENE; SOIL ACIDITY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84927157282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00163     Document Type: Article

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