Uncover landfilled antimicrobial resistance: a critical review of antibiotics flux, resistome dynamics and risk assessment

Special Topic: Emerging Pollution and Emerging Pollutants

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Issue		Natl Sci Open Volume 1, Number 2, 2022 Special Topic: Emerging Pollution and Emerging Pollutants


Article Number		20220012
Number of page(s)		22
Section		Earth and Environmental Sciences
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1360/nso/20220012
Published online		15 July 2022

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