TY - T1 - Sewage from Airplanes Exhibits High Abundance and Diversity of Antibiotic Resistance Genes SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/326230 T3 - A1 - Hess, Stefanie; Kneis, David; Osterlund, Tobias; Li, Bing; Kristiansson, Erik; Berendonk, Thomas U. A2 - PB - Y1 - 2019 LA - eng AB - Airplane sanitary facilities are shared by an international audience. We hypothesized the corresponding sewage to be an extraordinary source of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) and resistance genes (ARG) in terms of diversity and quantity. Accordingly, we analyzed ARG and ARB in airplane-borne sewage using complementary approaches: metagenomics, quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), and cultivation. For the purpose of comparison, we also quantified ARG and ARB in the inlets of munici... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - RIBOSOMAL-RNA; WATER; IDENTIFICATION; 1172 Environmental sciences; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology; 1183 Plant biology, microbiology, virology N1 - PP - ER -