Molecular epidemiological study on tetracycline resistance R plasmids in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Makino, S ^a   Asakura, H ^a   Obayashi, T ^a   Shirahata, T ^a   Ikeda, T ^b   Takeshi, K ^b  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING DISORDER; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; R PLASMID; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHILD; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; R FACTORS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

EID: 0032863230     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S095026889900268X     Document Type: Article

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