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Testing how well water disinfectants damage antibiotic resistance genes

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A team tested how well current water and wastewater disinfecting methods affect antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial DNA. While these methods work well to deter bacterial growth, they had varied success in either degrading or deactivating a representative antibiotic resistance gene.

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"Testing how well water disinfectants damage antibiotic resistance genes", MachPrinciple, April 11, 2019, https://machprinciple.com/post/Testing-how-well-water-disinfectants-damage-antibiotic-resistance-genes

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