Detection of pandemic B2-O25-ST131 Escherichia coli harbouring the CTX-M-9 extended-spectrum β-lactamase type in a feral urban brown rat (Rattus norvegicus)

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 582-584

  Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Grobbel, Mirjam ^a   Beutlich, Janine ^b   Guerra, Beatriz ^b   Ulrich, Rainer G ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Ewers, Christa ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT   (Germany)

^c Institute for Novel and Emerging Infectious Diseases   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Rodents; Wild animals

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; ORBIFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PANDEMIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; URBAN AREA; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RATS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 77950312141     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkp496     Document Type: Letter

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