Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Equine and Environmental Isolates of Clostridium difficile

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-63

  Baverud V ^a   Gunnarsson, A ^a   Karlsson, M ^a   Franklin, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVILAMYCIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NEOMYCIN; OXACILLIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; SPIRAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECES; HORSE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; FECES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 1942530717     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/107662904323047817     Document Type: Article

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