Presence of antibiotic-resistant commensal bacteria in samples from agricultural, city, and national park environments evaluated by standard culture and real-time PCR methods

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 761-770

  Yang, Hua ^a   Byelashov, Oleksandr A ^a   Geornaras, Ifigenia ^a   Goodridge, Lawrence D ^a   Nightingale, Kendra K ^a   Belk, Keith E ^a   Smith, Gary C ^a   Sofos, John N ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural; Ceftiofur resistance; City and national park environments; Real time PCR; Standard culture plating; Tetracycline resistance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL; CEFTIOFUR RESISTANCE; NATIONAL PARKS; REAL-TIME PCR; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIOLOGY; COMPOSTING; GENES; LAKES; MANURES; PLATING; SOILS; STANDARDS; WASTEWATER;

PARKS;

CEFTIOFUR; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CATTLE; COMPOST; GENE; MANURE; NATIONAL PARK; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REAL TIME; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN REGION; WASTEWATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLACMY 2 GENE; CATTLE; CITY; COMMENSAL; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; GENE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL POLLUTION; TET(B) GENE; TET(C) GENE; TET(O) GENE; TET(W) GENE; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; CATTLE; CEPHALOSPORINS; CITIES; COLORADO; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MANURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEWAGE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

COLORADO; FORT COLLINS; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS;

EID: 77958012605     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W10-060     Document Type: Article

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