Genetic detection of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-containing escherichia coli isolates from birds of prey from serra da estrela natural reserve in Portugal

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4118-4120

  Pinto, Luís ^a,b   Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   Coelho, Céline ^a,b   Costa, Paulo Martins Da ^c,d   Simões, Roméo ^c   Brandão, Ricardo M L ^e   Torres, Carmen ^f   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 PORTO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e Center of Ecology Monitoring and Recovery of Wild Animal   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS OF PREY; FECAL SAMPLES; LACTAMASES; NATURAL RESERVES; PORTUGAL; TEM;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BIRDS;

BETA LACTAMASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME; GENETIC ANALYSIS; RAPTOR; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; RAPTOR; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BIRD DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FECES; PORTUGAL; RAPTORS;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RAPTORES;

EID: 77953623590     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02761-09     Document Type: Article

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