Antibiotic resistance in faecal microbiota of Greek healthy infants

Beneficial Microbes

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-306

  Mitsou, E K ^a   Kirtzalidou, E ^a   Pramateftaki, P ^b   Kyriacou, A ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antimicrobials; Enterococci; Gut microflora

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GREECE; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FECES; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METAGENOME; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 80355127800     PISSN: 18762883     EISSN: 18762891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3920/BM2010.0007     Document Type: Article

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