Frequent Combination of Antimicrobial Multiresistance and Extraintestinal Pathogenicity in Escherichia coli Isolates from Urban Rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Berlin, Germany

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Bethe, Astrid ^a   Fruth, Angelika ^b   Semmler, Torsten ^a   Ulrich, Rainer G ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Ewers, Christa ^a,d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIFLOXACIN; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRAINTESTINAL PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BERLIN; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RATS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84870021433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050331     Document Type: Article

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