Antibiotic resistance genes and identification of staphylococci collected from the production chain of swine meat commodities

Food Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 196-201

  Simeoni, Desj ^a   Rizzotti, Lucia ^a   Cocconcelli, Piersandro ^b   Gazzola, Simona ^b   Dellaglio, Franco ^a   Torriani, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance genes; Food chain; Multidrug resistance; PCR detection; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SAFETY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SWINE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS CARNOSUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LENTUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PASTEURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SCIURI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SIMULANS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS XYLOSUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 35748937025     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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