Antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli isolated from poultry workers, patients and chicken in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 278-283

  Al Ghamdi, Mastour S ^a   El Morsy, Fikry ^b   Al Mustafa, Zaki H ^b   Al Ramadhan, Mustafa ^b   Hanif, Mohammad ^b  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics; Escherichia coli; Microbial; Poultry; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; GROWTH PROMOTOR; NITROFURANTOIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTICS; DRUG PRESCRIBING; DRUG RESISTANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; SAUDI ARABIA; WORKER;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG UTILIZATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POULTRY DISEASES; PREVALENCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEROTYPING;

SAUDI ARABIA;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARNATION LATENT VIRUS; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032912221     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.1999.00392.x     Document Type: Article

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