Human health hazards from antimicrobial-resistant escherichia coli of animal origin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 916-921

  Hammerum, Anette M ^a   Heuer, Ole E ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; APRAMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFADROXIL; CEFALEXIN; CEFAPIRIN; CEFOVECIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFQUINOME; CEFTIOFUR; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; NORDIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHROPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DIARRHEA; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENDOCARDITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE TRANSFER; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 63649091015     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597292     Document Type: Article

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