Characteristics and frequency of detection of fecal Listeria monocytogenes shed by livestock, wildlife, and humans

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1158-1167

  Lyautey, Emilie ^a   Hartmann, Alain ^b   Pagotto, Franco ^c   Tyler, Kevin ^c   Lapen, David R ^a   Wilkes, Graham ^a   Piveteau, Pascal ^b   Rieu, Aurélie ^b   Robertson, William J ^d   Medeiros, Diane T ^d   Edge, Thomas A ^e   Gannon, Victor ^f   Topp, Edward ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^e ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Fecal sources; Listeria monocytogenes; Pathogenicity; Virulence

Indexed keywords

FECAL SOURCES; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANTIBIOTICS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSOLIDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SURFACE WATERS;

PATHOGENS;

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN C; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; INTERNALIN A; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DETECTION METHOD; FECAL COLIFORM; LIVESTOCK; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRULENCE; WILD POPULATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEEF CATTLE; BIOSOLID; CANADA; CARNIVORA; CELL STRAIN CACO 2; CONTAMINATION; DAIRY CATTLE; DEER; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVESTOCK; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CACO-2 CELLS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE ECORI; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; HUMANS; LISTERIA INFECTIONS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PROCYON;

EID: 36549010934     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W07-084     Document Type: Article

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