Short communications: Acquired antimicrobial resistance in equine Rhodococcus equi isolates

Veterinary Record

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Boyen, F ^a   Pasmans, F ^a   Haesebrouck, F ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; RIFAMPICIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POINT MUTATION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POINT MUTATION; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 79952724832     PISSN: 00424900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/vr.c5289     Document Type: Note

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