Characterization of salmonella occurring at high prevalence in a population of the land iguana conolophus subcristatus in Galápagos Islands, Ecuador

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Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Franco, Alessia ^a   Hendriksen, Rene S ^b   Lorenzetti, Serena ^a   Onorati, Roberta ^a   Gentile, Gabriele ^c   Dell'Omo, Giacomo ^d   Aarestrup, Frank M ^b   Battisti, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE REGIONI LAZIO E TOSCANA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d Ornis Italica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONOLOPHUS SUBCRISTATUS; ECUADOR; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SEROTYPE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALMONELLOSIS; SEROTYPING;

ANIMALIA; CONOLOPHUS SUBCRISTATUS; IGUANA; IGUANIA; REPTILIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. DIARIZONAE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. ENTERICA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. HOUTENAE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA SUBSP. SALAMAE; SALMONELLA POONA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; ECUADOR; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; IGUANAS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 80051496116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023147     Document Type: Article

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