Could Public Restrooms Be an Environment for Bacterial Resistomes?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mkrtchyan, Hermine V ^a   Russell, Charlotte A ^a   Wang, Nan ^a,b   Cutler, Ronald R ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; NETILMICIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PUBLIC RESTROOM; SANITATION; SKIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FECES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TOILET FACILITIES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84872581601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054223     Document Type: Article

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