Detection of chromosomal and plasmid - encoded virulence determinants in Yersinia enterocolitica and other Yersiniaspp. isolated from food animals in Greece

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 326-331

  Kechagia, Nektaria ^a   Nicolaou, Chryssoula ^a   Ioannidou, Vasiliki ^a   Kourti, Erieta ^a   Ioannidis, Anastassios ^a   Legakis, Nicolaos John ^a   Chatzipanagiotou, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Food animals; Virulence; Yersinia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFACLOR; CEFALOTIN; CEFAMANDOLE; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPROZIL; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOTYPE; CHICKEN; COW; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREECE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SEROTYPE; SHEEP; SWINE; VIRF GENE; YADA GENE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INTERMEDIA; YERSINIA KRISTENSENII; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS; YST GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GREECE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA INTERMEDIA; YERSINIA KRISTENSENII; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 34548580342     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2007.07.044     Document Type: Article

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