Identification and Characterization of Integron-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance among Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1558-1564

  Zhao, Shaohua ^a   White, David G ^a   Ge, Beilei ^b   Ayers, Sherry ^a   Friedman, Sharon ^a   English, Linda ^a   Wagner, David ^a   Gaines, Stuart ^a   Meng, Jianghong ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; INTEGRASE; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA TOXINS;

EID: 0035318361     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.4.1558-1564.2001     Document Type: Article

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