Antimicrobial resistance in escherichia coli isolates from raccoons (procyon lotor) in southern ontario, Canada

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3873-3879

  Jardine, Claire M ^a   Janecko, Nicol ^b   Allan, Mike ^c   Boerlin, Patrick ^a   Chalmers, Gabhan ^a   Kozak, Gosia ^a   McEwen, Scott A ^a   Reid Smith, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-MICROBIAL AGENT; ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; E. COLI; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; ODDS RATIOS; ONTARIO , CANADA; PROCYON; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESISTANT BACTERIA; RURAL SITE; SEROTYPING; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TORONTO; URBAN SITE;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MAMMAL; RURAL AREA;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RACCOON; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; URBAN POPULATION; WILD ANIMAL; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RACCOONS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROTYPING; URBAN POPULATION;

CANADA; NIAGARA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 84864084439     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00705-12     Document Type: Article

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