New Sequence Types and Multidrug Resistance among Pathogenic Escherichia coli Isolates from Coastal Marine Sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3916-3922

  Vignaroli, C ^a   Luna, G M ^b   Rinaldi, C ^a   Di Cesare, A ^a   Danovaro, R ^a   Biavasco, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT MICROORGANISMS; CLASS 1; COASTAL MARINE SEDIMENTS; E. COLI; INTEGRASE; INTEGRONS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHYLOGENETIC GROUPS; RESISTANCE GENES; RESISTANT STRAINS; SELECTED STRAINS; SPECIFIC RESISTANCES; VIRULENCE GENE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COASTAL ZONE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; MARINE SEDIMENT; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEDIMENT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84864111714     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07820-11     Document Type: Article

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