Streptomycin and chloramphenicol resistance genes in Escherichia coli isolates from cattle, pigs, and chicken in Kenya

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-68

  Kikuvi, G M ^a   Schwarz, S ^b   Ombui, J N ^c   Mitema, E S ^c   Kehrenberg, C ^b  

^a JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^b INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AADA1 GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATA1 GENE; CATTLE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRFAI4 GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DISRUPTION; INTEGRON; KENYA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRA GENE; STRB GENE; SUL2 GENE; SWINE;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRONS; KENYA; PLASMIDS; STREPTOMYCIN; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

EID: 34249747456     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2006.9998     Document Type: Article

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