Antibiotic resistance and molecular epidemiology of Escherichia coli O26, O103 and O145 shed by two cohorts of Scottish beef cattle

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 403-410

  Vali, Leila ^a   Hamouda, Ahmed ^a   Hoyle, Deborah V ^a   Pearce, Michael C ^b   Whitaker, Lucy H R ^a   Jenkins, Claire ^c   Knight, Hazel I ^b   Smith, Alastair W ^b   Amyes, Sebastian G B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E. coli O103; E. coli O145; eaeA; Escherichia coli O26; MIC; PFGE; Stx

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; APRAMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN EAEA; PROTEIN EHXA; PROTEIN STX1; PROTEIN STX2; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BEEF CATTLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; INTEGRON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; CATTLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 34248219078     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkl491     Document Type: Article

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