Comprehensive evaluation of antibiotics emission and fate in the river basins of China: Source analysis, multimedia modeling, and linkage to bacterial resistance

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6772-6782

  Zhang, Qian Qian ^a   Ying, Guang Guo ^a   Pan, Chang Gui ^a   Liu, You Sheng ^a   Zhao, Jian Liang ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; SURVEYS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BACTERIAL RESISTANCE; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; EMISSION INVENTORIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATION; LEVEL III FUGACITY MODELS; NATIONAL CONSUMPTION; PREDICTED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FUGACITY; HEALTH IMPACT; MULTIMEDIA; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RIVER BASIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL USE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CONJUGATE; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYDROLYSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; RIVER BASIN; RURAL POPULATION; SEDIMENTATION; SEWAGE; URBAN POPULATION; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MULTIMEDIA; RIVER; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHINA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIMEDIA; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84930632873     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00729     Document Type: Article

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