Detection of multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype typhimurium DT104 based on a gene which confers cross-resistance to florfenicol and chloramphenicol

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1348-1351

  Bolton, Lance F ^a   Kelley, Lynda C ^a   Lee, Margie D ^b   Fedorka Cray, Paula J ^a   Maurer, John J ^b  

^a RUSSELL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FLORFENICOL; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS RESISTANCE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MARKER GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032917774     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.5.1348-1351.1999     Document Type: Article

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