Antibiotic-Resistance Genes in Waste Water

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 220-228

  Karkman, Antti ^a,b,c   Do, Thi Thuy ^d   Walsh, Fiona ^d   Virta, Marko P J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

horizontal gene transfer; selection pressure

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLAME RETARDANT; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; PESTICIDE; POLYMYXIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; SULFADIAZINE; SULFONAMIDE; SURFACTANT; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; METAL;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; EFFLUENT; GENE TRANSFER; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISINFECTANTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METAGENOMICS; METALS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

EID: 85031123305     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2017.09.005     Document Type: Review

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