Antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter spp. isolated from sewers receiving waste effluent from a hospital and a pharmaceutical plant

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3499-3502

  Guardabassi, Luca ^a   Petersen, Andreas ^a   Olsen, John E ^a   Dalsgaard, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; HOSPITAL WASTE; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031661960     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3499-3502.1998     Document Type: Article

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