Characterization of Metagenomes in Urban Aquatic Compartments Reveals High Prevalence of Clinically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Wastewaters
- 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- 2Centre for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore, Singapore
- 3Department of Environmental Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City International University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- 4Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- 5Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
- 6NUS Environmental Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
A corrigendum on
Characterization of Metagenomes in Urban Aquatic Compartments Reveals High Prevalence of Clinically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Wastewaters
by Ng, C., Tay, M., Tan, B., Le, T.-H., Haller, L., Chen, H., et al. (2017). Front. Microbiol. 8:2200. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02200
Janelle R. Thompson was not included as an author in the published article. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.
The original article has been updated.
Author Contributions
CN wrote the manuscript and TK and TB provided clinical wastewater samples. CN, T-HL, LH, and HC conducted sampling and performed the experiments. CN, MT, and BT analyzed datasets. JT provided computational resources and supervision for data analysis. CN, MT, BT, and KG conceived and designed the experiments.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Keywords: comparative metagenomics, antibiotic resistant genes, wastewaters, hospital, municipal, water body, tributary, beta lactamase resistant genes
Citation: Ng C, Tay M, Tan B, Le T-H, Haller L, Chen H, Koh TH, Barkham TMS, Thompson JR and Gin KY-H (2018) Corrigendum: Characterization of Metagenomes in Urban Aquatic Compartments Reveals High Prevalence of Clinically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Wastewaters. Front. Microbiol. 9:175. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00175
Received: 25 January 2018; Accepted: 25 January 2018;
Published: 05 February 2018.
Edited and reviewed by: Frontiers in Microbiology Editorial Office, Frontiers Media SA, Switzerland
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*Correspondence: Karina Y.-H. Gin, ceeginyh@nus.edu.sg