Characterization of isolates from an outbreak of multidrug-resistant, Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O145 in the United States

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5955-5956

  Folster, Jason P ^a   Pecic, Gary ^b   Taylor, Ethel ^b   Whichard, Jean ^b  

^a NCZVED   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAFURAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CELL LYSATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81555204311     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05545-11     Document Type: Letter

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