Occurrence and Distribution of Antibiotic Resistance in Artic Bacteria to Enviromental Antibiotic Exposure and Human Fecal Contamination

• Main Authors: Lozano, María Gómez, Saltini, Rolando, Dahllöf, Ingela, Granberg, Maria E, Villumsen, Arne
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Grøn Dyst 2010 2010
• Subjects: Greenland; Sisimiut; greenlandic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4122/1.1000000081; https://zenodo.org/record/3536457

Sewage treatment plants are lacking in Sisimiut (Greenland). Thus, untreated wastewater from Sisimiut´s hospital containing active antibiotics is discharged directly into the sea. The effect of the antibiotic contamination in the marine ecosystem was investigated. Bacteria with acquired resistance t...