Combined Antimicrobial Resistance in Enterococcus faecium isolated from chickens

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2796-2799

  Petsaris, Odile ^a   Miszczak, Fabien ^a   Gicquel Bruneau, Mireille ^b   Perrin Guyomard, Agnès ^b   Humbert, Florence ^b   Sanders, Pascal ^b   Leclercq, Roland ^a  

^a CAEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; VIRUSES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENTAMYCIN; SLAUGHTERHOUSES;

MEATS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVILAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; STREPTOGRAMIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTICS; TOLERANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CECUM; CHICKEN; EMTA GENE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERM GENE; MEF(A) GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; TET(L) GENE; TET(M) GENE; VANA GENE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 18444397182     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.5.2796-2799.2005     Document Type: Article

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