Surface water of a perennial river exhibits multi-antimicrobial resistant shiga toxin and enterotoxin producing Escherichia coli

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 490-495

  Ram, Siya ^a   Vajpayee, Poornima ^a   Singh, Ram Lakhan ^b   Shanker, Rishi ^a  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA AVADH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

ETEC; Multi antimicrobials resistant; STEC; Surface water; Virulence determinants

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; RIVER; SURFACE WATER; TOXIN; VIRULENCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHUA GENE; EAEA GENE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; HLYA GENE; INDIA; LT1 GENE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; RIVER; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; ST1 GENE; STX1 GENE; STX2 GENE; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING;

ASIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXINS; RIVERS; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SARYU RIVER; SOUTH ASIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 54949147871     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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