Elevated risk of carrying gentamicin-resistant escherichia coli among U.S. poultry workers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1738-1742

  Price, Lance B ^a,b   Graham, Jay P ^b   Lackey, Leila G ^b   Roess, Amira ^b   Vailes, Rocio ^b   Silbergeld, Ellen ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoglycoside; Antibiotic; Antimicrobial; Chickens; Escherichia coli; Gentamicin; Occupational exposure; Poultry; Resistance; Worker

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POULTRY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38749124408     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10191     Document Type: Article

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