An underappreciated hotspot of antibiotic resistance: The groundwater near the municipal solid waste landfill

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 609, Issue , 2017, Pages 966-973

  Chen, Qing Lin ^a,b   Li, Hu ^a   Zhou, Xin Yuan ^a   Zhao, Yi ^a,c   Su, Jian Qiang ^a   Zhang, Xian ^a   Huang, Fu Yi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Groundwater; HT qPCR; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; BACTERIA; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GENES; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEALTH RISKS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; CO-OCCURRENCE PATTERN; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; HT-QPCR; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW); MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE LANDFILLS; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

BETA LACTAM; GROUND WATER; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; GROUNDWATER; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LANDFILL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE; BACTERIAL GENE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; SOLID WASTE; TETRACYCLINE; WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES;

EID: 85026462728     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.164     Document Type: Article

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