Antimicrobial susceptibility and antibiotic resistance gene transfer analysis of foodborne, clinical, and environmental Listeria spp. isolates including Listeria monocytogenes

MicrobiologyOpen

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 118-127

  Bertsch, David ^a   Muelli, Mirjam ^a   Weller, Monika ^a   Uruty, Anaïs ^a   Lacroix, Christophe ^a   Meile, Leo ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Environmental; Food; Listeria; Resistance.

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL; FOOD; LISTERIA; RESISTANCE.;

ANIMALS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MEAT; PHENOTYPE; R FACTORS; SEAFOOD; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VEGETABLES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84893725437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20458827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.155     Document Type: Article

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