Escherichia coli in settled-dust and air samples collected in residential environments in Mexico City

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4093-4095

  Rosas, Irma ^a   Salinas, Eva ^a   Yela, Alma ^a   Calva, Edmundo ^a   Eslava, Carlos ^b   Cravioto, Alejandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HOUSEHOLD; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVIEW; SEROTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030798431     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.10.4093-4095.1997     Document Type: Review

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