Evidence of antibiotic resistance in free-swimming, top-level marine predatory fishes

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-16

  Blackburn, Jason K ^a   Mitchell, Mark A ^b   Blackburn, Mary Claire Holley ^c   Curtis, Andrew ^d   Thompson, Bruce A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bull shark; Elasmobranchs; Nurse shark; Redfish; Smooth dogfish

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLOACA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PREDATION; SEA; SHARK; UNITED STATES; BACTERIA; DRUG EFFECTS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CLOACA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PERCIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SHARKS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARCHARHINUS; CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE; MUSTELUS CANIS; PISCES; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 77950380828     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/2007-0061.1     Document Type: Article

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