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Quantification and characterization of β-lactam resistance genes in 15 sewage treatment plants from East Asia and North America.
Applied microbiology and biotechnology - 1 Sept 2012
Yang Ying, Zhang Tong, Zhang Xu-Xiang, Liang Da-Wei, Zhang Ming, Gao Da-Wen, Zhu He-Guang, Huang Qing-Guo, Fang Herbert H P
Abstract excerpt
The emerging antibiotic resistance genes in the aquatic environment have aroused public concern. As β-lactam is the most widely used group of antibiotics, β-lactam resistance genes were selected to investigate their distribution and diversity in the activated sludge from 15 geographically different sewage treatment plants (STPs) of China, Singapore, USA, and Canada. Specific PCR and quantitative real-time PCR...
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