Environmental contamination with vancomycin-resistant enterococci from hospital sewage in Portugal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3364-3368

  Novais, Carla ^a   Coque, Teresa M ^b   Ferreira, Helena ^a   Sousa, João Carlos ^c   Peixe, Luisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEWAGE; VIRUSES;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI (VRE);

WATER POLLUTION;

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

DRUG RESISTANCE; FECAL COLIFORM; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTUARY; HOSPITAL WASTE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PORTUGAL; RIVERS; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

DOURO ESTUARY; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 20444420808     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.6.3364-3368.2005     Document Type: Article

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