High Concentrations of the Antibiotic Spiramycin in Wastewater Lead to High Abundance of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Nitrifying Populations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 9124-9132

  Zhang, Yu ^a   Tian, Zhe ^a   Liu, Miaomiao ^a   Shi, Zhou Jason ^b   Hale, Lauren ^b   Zhou, Jizhong ^b,c,d   Yang, Min ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ANTIBIOTICS; ARCHES; BACTERIA; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; THROUGHPUT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEA (AOA); AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; AMMONIA-OXIDIZING ARCHAEA; NITRIFYING POPULATION; OXYTETRACYCLINES (OTC); PILOT SCALE SYSTEM; WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEM;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

AMMONIA; INOSINE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SPIRAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; GENE EXPRESSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AMMONIA OXIDIZING ARCHAEON; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIUM; AMOA GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITRIFYING ARCHAEON; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; THAUMARCHAEOTA; VARIANCE PARTITIONING ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANALYSIS; ARCHAEAL GENE; ARCHAEON; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER QUALITY;

ARCHAEA; NITROSOMONADALES;

AMMONIA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENETIC VARIATION; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEWAGE; SPIRAMYCIN; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84938633563     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01293     Document Type: Article

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