Detection of florfe'nicol resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolated from sick chickens

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 421-424

  Keyes, Kathleen ^a   Hudson, Charlene ^a   Maurer, John J ^a   Thayer, Stephan ^a   White, David G ^b   Lee, Margie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORDIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE; THIAMPHENICOL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLASMIDS; POULTRY DISEASES; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 0033621659     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.2.421-424.2000     Document Type: Article

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