Resistance to antimicrobial agents used for animal therapy in pathogenic-, zoonotic- and indicator bacteria isolated from different food animals in Denmark: A baseline study for the Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitorng (DANMAP)

APMIS

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 745-770

  Aarestrup, F M ^a   Bager, F ^a   Jensen, N E ^a   Madsen, M ^a   Meyling, A ^a   Wegener, H C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Animal therapy; DANMAP; Food animals; Resistance to antimicrobial agents

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APRAMYCIN; CEFTIOFUR; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREEDING; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CATTLE; CHICKEN; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROL SYSTEM; DENMARK; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG USE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD QUALITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ACTINOBACILLUS PLEUROPNEUMONIAE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HYICUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0031687375     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1998.tb00222.x     Document Type: Article

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