Stx genotypes and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from human infections, cattle and foods in Brazil

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 234-239

  Cergole Novella, Maria Cecília ^a   Nishimura, Lucilia S ^a   Irino, Kinue ^b   Vaz, Tânia Mara I ^a,b   De Castro, Antônio Fernando Pestana ^c   Leomil, Luciana ^c   Guth, Beatriz Ernestina C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Brazil; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli; stx subtypes

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; SHIGA TOXIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULPHAZOTRIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; CATTLE; COW; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CATTLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN I; SHIGA-LIKE TOXIN II;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744794016     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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