Antibiotic sensitivity profiles do not reliably distinguish relapsing or persisting infections from reinfections in cats with chronic renal failure and multiple diagnoses of Escherichia coli urinary tract infection

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 245-249

  Freitag, Thurid ^a   Squires, Richard A ^a   Schmid, Jan ^a   Elliott, Jonathan ^b   Rycroft, Andrew N ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiogram; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotic susceptibility; Cat; Persistent infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RECURRENCE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33645555960     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1892/0891-6640(2006)20[245:ASPDNR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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