Current status of antibiograms of Listeria ivanovii and Enterobacter cloacae isolated from ready-to-eat foods in Alice, South Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3101-3114

  Nyenje, Mirriam E ^a   Tanih, Nicoline F ^a   Green, Ezekiel ^a   Ndip, Roland N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterobacter cloacae; Foodborne pathogens; Listeria ivanovii; Minimum inhibitory concentration; South Africa

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NEOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM; FOOD; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGEN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DISK DIFFUSION; EFFLUENT; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LISTERIA IVANOVII; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; LISTERIA; LISTERIA IVANOVII;

EID: 84866948629     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph9093101     Document Type: Article

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