Fate and proliferation of typical antibiotic resistance genes in five full-scale pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plants

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 526, Issue , 2015, Pages 366-373

  Wang, Jilu ^b   Mao, Daqing ^a   Mu, Quanhua ^b   Luo, Yi ^b  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance gene; Bio treatment process; Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment plant

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; CORRELATION METHODS; DEWATERING; EFFLUENTS; GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT PROCESS; BIOTREATMENTS; CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGES; MEMBRANE BIO REACTOR (MBR); PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATER; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

ANTIBIOTICS;

BETA LACTAM; CEPHALOSPORIN; MACROLIDE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BIOLOGICAL METHOD; DRUG; EFFLUENT; SLUDGE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; BLAAMPC GENE; BLACTX M 1 GENE; BLAMECA GENE; BLAOXA 1 GENE; BLAOXA 10 GENE; BLAOXA 2 GENE; BLATEM 1 GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONVENTIONAL ACTIVATED SLUDGE; CYCLIC ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEM; ERMB GENE; ERMC GENE; GENE; INTI1 GENE; MEMBRANE BIO REACTOR; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OQXB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QNRA GENE; QNRB GENE; QNRD GENE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SLUDGE; SUL1 GENE; SUL2 GENE; SUL3 GENE; TETM GENE; TETO GENE; TETQ GENE; TETT GENE; TETW GENE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84930182964     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.046     Document Type: Article

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