Meta-genomic analysis of toilet waste from long distance flights; A step towards global surveillance of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Petersen, Thomas Nordahl ^a   Rasmussen, Simon ^a   Hasman, Henrik ^a   Carøe, Christian ^a   Bælum, Jacob ^a   Charlotte Schultz, Anna ^a   Bergmark, Lasse ^a   Svendsen, Christina A ^a   Lund, Ole ^a   Sicheritz Pontén, Thomas ^a   Aarestrup, Frank M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; VIRUS RNA; WASTE WATER;

AIRCRAFT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOROVIRUS; PATHOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; VIROLOGY; WASTE WATER;

AIRCRAFT; BACTERIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NOROVIRUS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84952900974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11444     Document Type: Article

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