Abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteriophage following soil fertilization with dairy manure or municipal biosolids, and evidence for potential transduction

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 7905-7913

  Ross, Joseph ^a   Topp, Edward ^a,b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOSOLIDS; CULTIVATION; FERTILIZERS; GENES; MANURES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; MUNICIPAL BIOSOLIDS; SELECTIVE PRESSURE; SOIL FERTILIZATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; BIOSOLID; COMPOST; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GENE FLOW; MANURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SELECTION; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FERTILIZER; MANURE; SOLID WASTE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; MANURE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; ONTARIO; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLID WASTE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FERTILIZERS; MANURE; ONTARIO; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOLID WASTE; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84946058596     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02363-15     Document Type: Article

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