The quantitative measurement of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli at the meta-population level (meta-population analysis)

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 326-330

  Humphry, R W ^a   Blake, D ^a   Fenlon, D ^a   Horgan, G ^a   Low, J C ^a   Gunn, G J ^a  

^a SAC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FAECAL SAMPLES; MATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; POPULATION ANALYSIS; POPULATION LEVELS; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; METAPOPULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BIOLOGY; CATTLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; POPULATION MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036401476     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765X.2002.01199.x     Document Type: Article

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