Occurrence of antibiotic-resistant enterobacteria in agricultural foodstuffs

Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 522-531

  Boehme, Sybille ^a,b   Werner, Guido ^a   Klare, Ingo ^a   Reissbrodt, Rolf ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b HA2 Medizintechnik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterobacteria; Enterococci; Foodstuff

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MEZLOCILLIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULBACTAM; SULFAMERAZINE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD; FOOD CONTAMINATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TOMATO; VEGETABLE;

CHLORAMPHENICOL RESISTANCE; CITROBACTER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENTAMICINS; KLEBSIELLA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDLING; SEEDS; VEGETABLES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 10444232857     PISSN: 16134125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.200400030     Document Type: Article

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