Genotypic Analysis of Escherichia coli Strains from Poultry Carcasses and Their Susceptibilities to Antimicrobial Agents

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1940-1944

  Geornaras, Ifigenia ^a   Hastings, John W ^b   Von Holy, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; POULTRY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SLAUGHTERHOUSE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POULTRY;

EID: 0035317033     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1940-1944.2001     Document Type: Article

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