Is fecal carriage of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in urban rats a risk for public health?

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2424-2425

  Guenther, Sebastian ^a   Wuttke, Julia ^a   Bethe, Astrid ^a   Vojtěch, Jiři ^b   Schaufler, Katharina ^a   Semmler, Torsten ^a   Ulrich, Rainer G ^c   Wieler, Lothar H ^a   Ewers, Christa ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; HEALTH HAZARD; LETTER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; URBAN AREA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; GERMANY; PHYLOGENY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RATS; RISK;

EID: 84876231082     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.02321-12     Document Type: Letter

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