Impact of Manure Fertilization on the Abundance of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Frequency of Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Soil and on Vegetables at Harvest

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    Total rainfall and average ambient air temperatures recorded at the SCFPRC study site during the 2011 and 2012 seasons (Fig. S1), key properties of the manures used in this study (Table S1), application to harvest schedules (Table S2), primers and sequence validation of expected PCR products (Table S3), detection of gene targets of interest in swine and dairy manure and frequency of detection in soil (Table S4), abundance of viable enteric bacteria in soils (Table S5) and vegetables (Table S6) at vegetable harvest and of antibiotic-resistant coliform bacteria in soils (Table S7) and vegetables (Table S8) at harvest, and gene detection in DNA isolated from vegetables at harvest (Table S9).

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