Molecular characterization of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from Irish cattle farms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7121-7127

  Karczmarczyk, Maria ^a   Walsh, Ciara ^a,b   Slowey, Rosemarie ^c   Leonard, Nola ^a   Fanning, Séamus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c An Roinn Talmhaiochta lascaigh agus Bia   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CLASS 1; CONJUGATION ASSAY; E. COLI; FOOD-PRODUCING ANIMALS; HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT; INTEGRASE; INTEGRONS; IRELAND; MICROFLORA; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CATTLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DRUG RESISTANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CATTLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTEGRON; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; INTEGRONS; IRELAND; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 82955194475     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00601-11     Document Type: Article

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