High Diversity among Environmental Escherichia coli Isolates from a Bovine Feedlot

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1528-1536

  Yang, Hsiao Hui ^a   Vinopal, Robert T ^a   Grasso, Domenico ^b   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOFILMS; CYTOLOGY; GENES;

BIOFILM-FORMING ABILITY; SUBSPECIES HETEROGENEITY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AG43 PROTEIN; CARBENICILLIN; CARBOHYDRATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; LAURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; POLYMYXIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRYPTOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM;

AGN43 GENE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CATTLE FARMING; CELL MOTILITY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TAXONOMY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADHESINS, ESCHERICHIA COLI; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CATTLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; NEGIBACTERIA; OTUS;

EID: 1642334016     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1528-1536.2004     Document Type: Article

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