Antimicrobial resistance of Listeria monocytogenes isolated from dairy-based food products

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4022-4027

  Harakeh, Steve ^a   Saleh, Imane ^b   Zouhairi, Omar ^a   Baydoun, Elias ^a   Barbour, Elie ^a   Alwan, Nisreen ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Dubai   (United Arab Emirates)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Baladi cheese, Shankleesh, Kishk; Dairy based food products; Listeria monocytogenes

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE; BALADI CHEESE, SHANKLEESH, KISHK; BASE PAIRS; BIOCHEMICAL TESTS; CONTAMINATION LEVELS; LEBANON; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR LEVELS; MONOCYTOGENES; NORTHEAST REGIONS; PCR PRODUCTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTIONS;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; EMERGENCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CHEESE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DAIRY PRODUCT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; LEBANON; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ASIA; BEKAA VALLEY; BEQAA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 65549095121     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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