Serogroups, toxins and antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli strains isolated from diarrhoeic lambs in Spain

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 209-217

  Blanco, Jorge ^a   Cid, Dolores ^b   Blanco, Jesús E ^a   Blanco, Miguel ^a   Ruiz Santa Quiteira, José A ^b   De La Fuente, Ricardo ^b  

^a Universidad de Santiago da Compostela   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; diarrhoea; Escherichia coli; sheep; toxins; virulence

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENTEROTOXIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFADIAZINE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VEROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; SPAIN; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030007623     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1135(95)00188-3     Document Type: Article

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