Organic carbon: An overlooked factor that determines the antibiotic resistome in drinking water sand filter biofilm

Biofilter, an essential water treatment process, is reported to be the harbor of bacterial antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Due to the oligotrophic characteristic of source water, filter biofilm is largely influenced by the concentration of organic carbon. The objective of this study was to inves...

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Main Authors: Kun Wan, Menglu Zhang, Chengsong Ye, Wenfang Lin, Lizheng Guo, Sheng Chen, Xin Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018322943