Plasmid-related resistance to cefoxitin in species of the Bacteroides fragilis group isolated from intestinal tracts of calves

Current Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 440-443

  Dos Santos Almeida, F ^a   Avila Campos, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFOXITIN; NITROCEFIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES VULGATUS; CATTLE; CEPA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DILUTION; FEMALE; INTESTINE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CATTLE; CEFOXITIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; INTESTINES; PLASMIDS;

ANIMALIA; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33750570875     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-006-0247-7     Document Type: Article

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