Antimicrobial resistance in Escherichiae coli isolated from retail milk-fed veal meat from Southern Ontario, Canada

Journal of Food Protection

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1328-1333

  Cook, Angela ^a,b   Reid Smith, Richard J ^a,b   Irwin, Rebecca J ^a   Mcewen, Scott A ^b   Young, Virginia ^a   Butt, Kelly ^b   Ribble, Carl ^b,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANADA; CATTLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVALENCE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MILK; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE;

EID: 80051580595     PISSN: 0362028X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-10-495     Document Type: Article

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