Drug-Resistant Salmonella from Animals Fed Antimicrobials

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 311, Issue 10, 1984, Pages 617-622

  Holmberg, Scott D ^a   Osterholm, Michael T ^a   Senger, Kenneth A ^a   Cohen, Mitchell L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CATTLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; R PLASMID; SALMONELLA NEWPORT;

EID: 0021215183     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198409063111001     Document Type: Article

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