Characterization of multiple-antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from diseased chickens and swine in China

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3483-3489

  Yang, Hanchun ^a,b   Chen, Sheng ^b   White, David G ^c   Zhao, Shaohua ^c   McDermott, Patrick ^c   Walker, Robert ^c   Meng, Jianghong ^b  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Center for Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTIOFUR; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORDIFLOXACIN; ORBIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN; CHINA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GYRA GENE; INTEGRON; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CHINA; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; INTEGRONS; POULTRY DISEASES; SEROTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GALLUS GALLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3843117779     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3483-3489.2004     Document Type: Article

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