Comparison of antimicrobial resistance patterns in enterococci from intensive and free range chickens in Australia

Avian Pathology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-54

  Obeng, Akua Serwaah ^a   Rickard, Heather ^a   Ndi, Olasumbo ^a   Sexton, Margaret ^b   Barton, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Biosecurity SA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84873717458     PISSN: 03079457     EISSN: 14653338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03079457.2012.757576     Document Type: Article

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