Wild birds as biological indicators of environmental pollution: Antimicrobial resistance patterns of Escherichia coli and Enterococci isolated from common buzzards (Buteo buteo)

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 837-843

  Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b   Gonçalves, Alexandre ^a,b   Pacheco, Rui ^a,b   Sargo, Roberto ^a   Igrejas, Gilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AAC(3) II GENE; AAC(3) IV GENE; AADA1 GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIRD; BLA TEM GENE; BUTEO BUTEO; CMLA GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; FIMA GENE; INTI1 GENE; INTI2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PAPC GENE; POLLUTION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUL1 GENE; SUL2 GENE; SUL3 GENE; TET(A) GENE; TET(B) GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALCONIFORMES; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84861131938     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.038364-0     Document Type: Article

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