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La Poudre (Poudre) River sediments, irrigation ditches, dairy lagoons, and the
effluents of wastewater recycling and drinking water treatment plant.” - “The following trend was observed with respect to ARG concentrations: dairy
lagoon water > irrigation ditch water > urban/agriculturally impacted river
sediments.”
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resistant to one or more of the tested antibiotics.” - “For Ent. Faecium, the situation was even worse; all were resistant to
chloramphenicol and high resistance (50-90% of the isolates) was found to
penicillin V, ampicillin, tetracycline, erythromycin, norfloxacin and
trimethoprim.” - “All of the vancomycin-resistant isolates found, except one, were also resistant to
erythromycin.”
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dairy products in one of the provinces of Iran and highlight the emergence of
multi-drug resistant Listeria in the environment.”
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- “Nanoparticles have unique and well defined physical and chemical properties
which can be manipulated suitably for desired applications.” - “The application of nanoparticles as antimicrobials is gaining relevance in
prophylaxis and therapeutics, in medical devices, food industry and textile
fabrics. The problems related to toxicity of nanoparticles will be addressed in
brief.”