Antibiotic resistant enterococci and staphylococci isolated from flies collected near confined poultry feeding operations

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2701-2710

  Graham, Jay P ^a   Price, Lance B ^a   Evans, Sean L ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^a   Silbergeld, Ellen K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterococci; Flies; Poultry litter; Staphylococci

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCI; FLIES; POULTRY LITTER; STAPHYLOCOCCI;

BACTERIOLOGY; FEEDING;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; FLY; GENE; LITTER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIPTERA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POULTRY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; UNITED STATES;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 61449085464     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.056     Document Type: Article

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