Commercial mushrooms and bean sprouts are a source of Pseudomonas aeruginosa [2]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 5830-5831

  Curran, Barry ^a   Morgan, J Alun W ^a   Honeybourne, David ^b   Dowson, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEAN; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COOKING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HYGIENE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KERATITIS; LETTER; MUSHROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AGARICALES; EUROPE; FABACEAE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; SEEDLING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 27744552912     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.11.5830-5831.2005     Document Type: Letter

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