Global emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens the therapies of bacterial pathogen infections. Professor ZHU Yongguan from Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his international collaborators, have conducted a nation-wide survey of antimicrobial resistance elements in urban sewage and depicted that the distribution of antimicrobial resistant genes was characterized by the well-known “Hu Huanyong line”, which delineates a striking difference in the dis...
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Arsenic (As) in natural waters mainly includes inorganic As and organoarsenicals. The widespread occurrence of As in the aquatic environment, especially in freshwater, has attracted extensive concern, because of its potential environmental risk to human health. Although previous studies has suggested that cyanobacteria and other microorganisms may play an important role in As biotransformation and metabolism in the environment, very little has been studied regarding the influences of env...
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