Emergence of a tetracycline-resistant Campylobacter jejuni clone associated with outbreaks of ovine abortion in the United States

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1663-1671

  Sahin, Orhan ^a   Plummer, Paul J ^a   Jordan, Dianna M ^a   Sulaj, Kapllan ^a,c   Pereira, Sonia ^a   Robbe Austerman, Suelee ^b   Wang, Liping ^a,d   Yaeger, Michael J ^a   Hoffman, Lorraine J ^a   Zhang, Qijing ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Veterinary Services Laboratories   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^d NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTIOFUR; ENROFLOXACIN; FLORFENICOL; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; TILMICOSIN; TULATROMYCIN; TYLOSIN;

ABORTION; AGAR DILUTION; ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLONING; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEEP; UNITED STATES;

ABORTED FETUS; ABORTION, VETERINARY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; LIVER; LUNG; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP DISEASES; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS SUBSP. FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 43249102955     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00031-08     Document Type: Article

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