Genetic detection of extended-spectrum β-Lactamase-containing escherichia coli isolates and vancomycin-resistant enterococci in fecal samples of healthy children

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 211-216

  Guimarães, Bruno ^a,b   Barreto, Ângela ^a,b   Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   Figueiredo, Nicholas ^a,b   Gaspar, Eurico ^a   Rodrigues, Jorge ^a,b   Torres, Carmen ^c   Igrejas, Gilberto ^a   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 69949186446     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2009.0910     Document Type: Article

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