Prevalence of multiple antibiotic resistance and rplasmid in escherichia coli isolates of hospital sewage of aligarh city in India

Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 104-109

  Ajamaluddin, Malik ^a   Khan, Mohd A ^a   Khan, Asad U ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; E. coli; Multi drug resistance; R plasmid; Sewage water

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950452428     PISSN: 09701915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02883736     Document Type: Article

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