Does human activity impact the natural antibiotic resistance background? Abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in 21 Swiss lakes

Environment International

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-55

  Czekalski, Nadine ^a   Sigdel, Radhika ^a   Birtel, Julia ^a   Matthews, Blake ^a   Bürgmann, Helmut ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Bacteria; Environment; Freshwater; Pollution; QPCR

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AMIDES; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; CATCHMENTS; EUTROPHICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; LAKES; LINEAR REGRESSION; MICROORGANISMS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POTABLE WATER; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA; RUNOFF; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; ENVIRONMENT; FRESHWATER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; QPCR; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

LAKE POLLUTION;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; BACTERIAL RNA; WASTE WATER;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENE; LAKE WATER; POLLUTANT; RNA; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUTROPHICATION; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAKE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRA GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUL1 GENE; SUL2 GENE; SWISS; TET B GENE; TET M GENE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER;

SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAKES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWITZERLAND; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84928155094     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2015.04.005     Document Type: Article

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