Multi drug resistance patterns of shiga toxin - producing Escherichia coli (STEC) and non - STEC isolates from meats, RTE meat foods, drinking water and human diarrhoeic samples of Punjab, India

Archives of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Rao, T Srinivasa ^a   Gil, J P S ^a   Kumar, G V V P S Ravi ^a   Ghatak, Sandeep ^a  

^a GURU ANGAD DEV VETERINARY AND ANIMAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Multidrug resistance; Non STEC; PCR; STEC; strA and strB; tetA,tetB and tetC

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84872009831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19898436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3823/225     Document Type: Article

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