High abundances of class 1 integrase and sulfonamide resistance genes, and characterisation of class 1 integron gene cassettes in four urban wetlands in Nigeria

Olawale Olufemi Adelowo; Therese Helbig; Camila Knecht; Franziska Reincke; Ines Mäusezahl; Jochen A. Müller

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208269

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High abundances of class 1 integrase and sulfonamide resistance genes, and characterisation of class 1 integron gene cassettes in four urban wetlands in Nigeria

Olawale Olufemi Adelowo ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: onomewaleadelowo@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliations Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-8122

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Therese Helbig,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Biology/Microbiology Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Camila Knecht,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Institute of Instrumental & Environmental Technology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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Franziska Reincke,

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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Ines Mäusezahl,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
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Jochen A. Müller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0935-1523

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High abundances of class 1 integrase and sulfonamide resistance genes, and characterisation of class 1 integron gene cassettes in four urban wetlands in Nigeria

Olawale Olufemi Adelowo,
Therese Helbig,
Camila Knecht,
Franziska Reincke,
Ines Mäusezahl,
Jochen A. Müller

Published: November 29, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208269

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