Vancomycin- and erythromycin-resistant enterococci in a pig farm and its environment

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 667-674

  Manero, Albert ^a   Vilanova, Xavier ^b   Cerdà Cuéllar, Marta ^c   Blanch, Anicet R ^b  

^a Secció Microbiologia   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE DE RECERCA EN SANITAT ANIMAL CRESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SPAIN; SWINE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ERYTHROMYCIN; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; SPAIN; SUS SCROFA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33644836065     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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