Cross-Contamination of Residual Emerging Contaminants and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Lettuce Crops and Soil Irrigated with Wastewater Treated by Sunlight/H2O2

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 11096-11104

  Ferro, Giovanna ^a   Polo López, María I ^b   Martínez Piernas, Ana B ^c   Fernández Ibáñez, Pilar ^b   Agüera, Ana ^c   Rizzo, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA CIEMAT   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; CONTAMINATION; CROPS; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IRRIGATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ADVANCED OXIDATION PROCESS; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; BACTERIA CONTAMINATION; COMPOUND PARABOLIC COLLECTOR; CONTAMINANTS OF EMERGING CONCERNS; DISINFECTION PROCESS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; QUECHERS EXTRACTIONS;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

CARBAMAZEPINE; FLUMEQUINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; TIABENDAZOLE; SOIL; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; IRRIGATION; LEAFY VEGETABLE; OXIDATION; SOLAR RADIATION; WASTEWATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLORINATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DISINFECTION; EFFLUENT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROPONICS; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LETTUCE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OZONATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOLYSIS; SOIL; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; RADIATION RESPONSE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTUCA;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; BACTERIA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LETTUCE; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; PLANT LEAVES; SOIL; SUNLIGHT; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84941670821     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02613     Document Type: Article

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