Effect of banning vancomycin analogue avoparcin on vancomycin-resistant enterococci in chicken farms in Taiwan: Brief report

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 819-823

  Lauderdale, Tsai Ling ^a   Shiau, Yih Ru ^a   Wang, Hui Ying ^a   Lai, Jui Fen ^a   Huang, I Wen ^a   Chen, Pei Chen ^a   Chen, Hong Yi ^a   Lai, Shiow Suey ^b   Liu, Ya Fang ^c   Ho, Monto ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVOPARCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TAIWAN;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CHICKENS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TAIWAN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 33846997895     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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