Echinoderms from Azores islands: An unexpected source of antibiotic resistant Enterococcus spp. and Escherichia coli isolates

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 69, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 122-127

  Marinho, Catarina ^a,b   Silva, Nuno ^b   Pombo, Sofia ^a   Santos, Tiago ^a,b   Monteiro, Ricardo ^a,b   Gonçalves, Alexandre ^a,b   Micael, Joana ^c   Rodrigues, Pedro ^c   Costa, Ana Cristina ^c   Igrejas, Gilberto ^a   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Azores; Echinoderms; Enterococci; Escherichia coli

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AZORES; ECHINODERMS; ENTEROCOCCI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCES; RESISTANT STRAINS;

BACILLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ECHINODERM; FECAL COLIFORM; GENE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EFFECT;

AAC(6') APH(2'') GENE; AADA GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APH(3') GENE; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINODERM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ERM(A) GENE; ERM(B) GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; TET(A) GENE; TET(B) GENE; TET(L) GENE; TET(M) GENE; VAT(D) GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZORES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECHINODERMATA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; KANAMYCIN KINASE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AZORES; PORTUGAL;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84876103589     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2013.01.017     Document Type: Article

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