Bacterial Community Shift Drives Antibiotic Resistance Promotion during Drinking Water Chlorination

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 12271-12279

  Jia, Shuyu ^a   Shi, Peng ^a   Hu, Qing ^a   Li, Bing ^b   Zhang, Tong ^b   Zhang, Xu Xiang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BIOMARKERS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHLORINATION; CHLORINE; GENE ENCODING; GENES; WATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RESISTANCE-NODULATION-CELL DIVISIONS; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

POTABLE WATER;

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORINE; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRINKING WATER; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FOSMIDOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; POLYMYXIN; QUINOLONE; ROXITHROMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; SULFADIMIDINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; TRANSPOSON; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; CHLORINATION; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ACIDOVORAX; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACA GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; CHLORINATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LIMNOBACTER; METAGENOMICS; METHYLOPHILUS; METHYLOTENERA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PLEOMONAS; POLYNUCLEOBACTER; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS; UNDIBACTERIUM; ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HALOGENATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SEWAGE; TRANSPOSON; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ACIDOVORAX; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LIMNOBACTER; METHYLOPHILUS; METHYLOTENERA; PLEOMORPHOMONAS; POLYNUCLEOBACTER; PSEUDOMONAS; SPHINGOMONAS;

BACTERIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRINKING WATER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HALOGENATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84945311425     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03521     Document Type: Article

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