Occurrence of antibiotic-resistant uropathogenic Escherichia coli clonal group A in wastewater effluents

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4180-4184

  Boczek, Laura A ^a   Rice, Eugene W ^a   Johnston, Brian ^b   Johnson, James R ^b,c  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

ANTIGENS; EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; SEWAGE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VIRULENCE; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EFFLUENT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEROTYPING; UNITED STATES; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; SEWAGE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 34447505176     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02225-06     Document Type: Article

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