Prevalence of silver resistance genes in bacteria isolated from human and horse wounds

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 325-329

  Woods, E J ^a   Cochrane, C A ^b   Percival, S L ^a  

^a Deeside Industrial Estate   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enterobacter cloacae; Sil genes; Silver resistance; Wounds

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SILCBA; PROTEIN SILE; PROTEIN SILF; PROTEIN SILP; PROTEIN SILRS; SILVER; SILVER NITRATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HORSE DISEASE; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILVER RESISTANCE; WOUND;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SILVER; WOUND INFECTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EQUIDAE;

EID: 69549121774     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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