Molecular typing of antimicrobial-resistant Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains (STEC) in Brazil

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-123

  Cergole Novella, Maria Cecilia ^a   Pignatari, Antonio Carlos Campos ^a   Castanheira, Mariana ^b   Guth, Beatriz Ernestina Cabilio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b JMI LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Class 1 integron; Phylogenetic background; Resistance genes; Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAZIL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; SEROTYPING; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79952104483     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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