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Impact of wastewater from different sources on the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli in sewage treatment plants in South India.
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety - 1 May 2015
Akiba Masato, Senba Hironobu, Otagiri Haruna, Prabhasankar Valipparambil P, Taniyasu Sachi, Yamashita Nobuyoshi, Lee Ken-ichi, Yamamoto Takehisa, Tsutsui Toshiyuki, Ian Joshua Derrick, Balakrishna Keshava, Bairy Indira, Iwata Taketoshi, Kusumoto Masahiro, Kannan Kurunthachalam, Guruge Keerthi S
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The sewage treatment plant (STP) is one of the most important interfaces between the human population and the aquatic environment, leading to contamination of the latter by antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. To identify factors affecting the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, water samples were collected from three different STPs in South India. STP1 exclusively treats sewage generated by a domestic...
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