The use of ribotyping and antibiotic resistance patterns for identification of host sources of Escherichia coli strains

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-68

  Samadpour, Mansour ^a,d   Roberts, M C ^a   Kitts, C ^b   Mulugeta, W ^c   Alfi, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute for Environmental Health   (United States)

^d Inst for Environmental Health Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistant patterns; Escherichia coli; Ribotype patterns

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT PATTERN; ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITIES; ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE; FECAL POLLUTION; HOST SOURCE; RESISTANCE LEVEL; RIBOTYPE PATTERN; RIBOTYPING; SOURCES IDENTIFICATIONS; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMPICILLIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOMONITORING; POLLUTANT SOURCE; TOLERANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIBOTYPING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 12444280108     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2004.01630.x     Document Type: Article

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