High prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in Swedish sewage

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2838-2842

  Iversen, Aina ^a   Kühn, Inger ^a   Franklin, Anders ^a   Möllby, Roland ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; GENES; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITALS; SURFACE WATERS;

PHENOTYPING;

SEWAGE;

AMPICILLIN; AVILAMYCIN; AVOPARCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

SEWAGE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL SELECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL WASTE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SWEDEN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE FREQUENCY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036272191     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.6.2838-2842.2002     Document Type: Article

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