Human health hazard from antimicrobial-resistant enterococci in animals and food

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 911-916

  Heuer, Ole E ^a   Hammerum, Anette M ^b   Collignon, Peter ^c   Wegener, Henrik C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c CANBERRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGRICULTURE; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLONE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD QUALITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE GENE; REVIEW; VANA GENE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; DANGEROUS GOODS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS;

EID: 33748663056     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507534     Document Type: Review

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