Antibiotic resistance genes in coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from food

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 113-120

  Perreten, Vincent ^b   Giampà, Natalina ^b   Schuler Schmid, Ursula ^b   Teuber, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Cheese; Chloramphenicol; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Erythromycin; Food raw milk; Lincomycin; Meat products; Tetraycline

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEESE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FELIS CATUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CAPRAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDEMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LENTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SP.; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS;

EID: 0031919067     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80014-3     Document Type: Article

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