Article
Microbial hitchhikers harbouring antimicrobial-resistance genes in the riverine plastisphere
2023-05-08
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> The widespread nature of plastic pollution has given rise to wide scientific and social concern regarding the capacity of these materials to serve as vectors for pathogenic bacteria and reservoirs for Antimicrobial Resistance Genes (ARG). In- and ex-situ were used to characterise the riverine plastisphere taxonomically and functionally in order to determine whether antibiotics within the wate...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ea304397-7ccf-5029-8db2-1e36a528098f
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2886255/v1
