Prevalence and antibiotic resistance profiles of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains isolated from food items in northwestern Mexico

International Journal of Food Microbiology

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-45

  Canizalez Roman, Adrian ^a,b   Gonzalez Nuñez, Edgar ^a   Vidal, Jorge E ^c   Flores Villaseñor, Héctor ^a   León Sicairos, Nidia ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

^b The Sinaloa State Public Health Laboratory   (Mexico)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Biosurveillance; Diarrheagenic; E. coli; Food

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; ICE; NALIDIXIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEVERAGE; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIARRHEAGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; MEAT; MEXICO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEA FOOD;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84876322596     PISSN: 01681605     EISSN: 18793460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2013.03.020     Document Type: Article

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