Application of multiple locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA), phage typing and antimicrobial susceptibility testing to subtype Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolated from pig farms, pork slaughterhouses and meat producing plants in Ireland

Food Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1087-1094

  Prendergast, D M ^a,b   O'Grady, D ^a   Fanning, S ^b   Cormican, M ^c   Delappe, N ^c   Egan, J ^a   Mannion, C ^a   Fanning, J ^a   Gutierrez, M ^a  

^a National Reference Laboratory for (Food Feed and Animal Health)   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

AMR; MLVA; Phage typing; Pork; Salmonella typhimurium

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; STATISTICS; SWINE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; VIROLOGY;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOPHAGE TYPING; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FOOD CONTAMINATION; IRELAND; MEAT; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SWINE;

SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA SEROVAR TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 79955861607     PISSN: 07400020     EISSN: 10959998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fm.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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