Molecular characterization of antimicrobial resistance in enterococci and Escherichia coli isolates from European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4871-4876

  Silva, Nuno ^a   Igrejas, Gilberto ^b   Figueiredo, Nicholas ^a,b   Gonçalves, Alexandre ^a,b   Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   Rodrigues, Jorge ^a,b   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enterococci; Escherichia coli; European rabbits

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CIPROFLOXACIN; E. COLI; ENTEROCOCCI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUROPEAN RABBITS; FAECAL BACTERIA; KANAMYCINS; LACTAMASES; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; NALIDIXIC ACID; PORTUGAL; RESISTANCE GENES; TEM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MICROORGANISMS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN AAC(3) II; PROTEIN AADA; PROTEIN BLA TEM; PROTEIN CATA; PROTEIN SUL1; PROTEIN SUL2; PROTEIN SUL3; PROTEIN TET(A); PROTEIN TET(B); STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUROPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PORTUGAL;

ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PORTUGAL; RABBITS;

PORTUGAL;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 77955919290     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.046     Document Type: Article

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