Prevalence and characterization of plasmids carrying sulfonamide resistance genes among Escherichia coli from pigs, pig carcasses and human

Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Shuyu ^a,b,d   Dalsgaard, Anders ^b   Hammerum, Anette M ^c   Porsbo, Lone J ^a   Jensen, Lars B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d Dongwai Diplomatic Building   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SUL1 PROTEIN, E COLI; SUL2 PROTEIN, BACTERIA; SUL3 PROTEIN, E COLI; SULFONAMIDE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CHEMISTRY; DENMARK; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DENMARK; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; DNA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SULFONAMIDES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 77958167005     PISSN: 0044605X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0147-52-47     Document Type: Article

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