Evaluating the mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental resistomes without metagenomics

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pärnänen, Katariina ^a   Karkman, Antti ^a   Tamminen, Manu ^b,c   Lyra, Christina ^a   Hultman, Jenni ^a   Paulin, Lars ^d   Virta, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; METAGENOMICS; SEDIMENT; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; METAGENOMICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84992391398     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep35790     Document Type: Article

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