Antibiotic and disinfectant susceptibility profiles of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) isolated from community wastewater in Texas

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 188-194

  Beier, Ross C ^a   Duke, Sara E ^a   Ziprin, Richard L ^a   Harvey, Roger B ^a   Hume, Michael E ^a   Poole, Toni L ^a   Scott, H Morgan ^b   Highfield, Linda D ^b   Alali, Walid Q ^b   Andrews, Kathleen ^a   Anderson, Robin C ^a   Nisbet, David J ^a  

^a SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Disinfectants; Enterococcus faecium; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION (MIC); SUSCEPTIBILITY; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

ANTIBIOTICS; DISINFECTANTS; WASTEWATER;

BACTERIA;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACITRACIN; BAMBERMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DANOFLOXACIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DIFLOXACIN; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINCOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; MARBOFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; ORBIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRICLOSAN; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WASTE WATER;

DISINFECTANTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 40949133347     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-007-9342-0     Document Type: Article

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