Recovery of metallo-tolerant and antibiotic resistant psychrophilic bacteria from Siachen glacier, Pakistan

Muhammad Rafiq; Muhammad Hayat; Alexandre M. Anesio; Syed Umair Ullah Jamil; Noor Hassan; Aamer Ali Shah; Fariha Hasan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178180

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Recovery of metallo-tolerant and antibiotic resistant psychrophilic bacteria from Siachen glacier, Pakistan

Muhammad Rafiq,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Department of Microbiology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, Pakistan, Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Muhammad Hayat,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Alexandre M. Anesio,

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
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Syed Umair Ullah Jamil,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Noor Hassan,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Aamer Ali Shah,

Roles Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Fariha Hasan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: farihahasan@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-2745

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Recovery of metallo-tolerant and antibiotic resistant psychrophilic bacteria from Siachen glacier, Pakistan

Muhammad Rafiq,
Muhammad Hayat,
Alexandre M. Anesio,
Syed Umair Ullah Jamil,
Noor Hassan,
Aamer Ali Shah,
Fariha Hasan

Published: July 26, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178180

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