Contamination of potable water distribution systems by multiantimicrobial-resistant enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 448-452

  Ram, Siya ^a   Vajpayee, Poornima ^a   Shanker, Rishi ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli; Multiantimicrobial resistant; Virulence determinants

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DRINKING WATER; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PROTEIN CHUA; PROTEIN EAEA; PROTEIN HLYA; PROTEIN STX1; PROTEIN STX2; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; INDIA; MEMBRANE FILTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INDIA; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SHIGA TOXIN 1; SHIGA TOXIN 2; VIRULENCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 45749136766     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10809     Document Type: Article

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