Environmental and Animal-Associated Enterococci

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2014, Pages 147-186

  Staley, Christopher ^a   Dunny, Gary M ^a   Sadowsky, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Commensal; Enteric bacteria; Fecal indicator bacteria; Gene transfer; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CONTAMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT; HEALTH HAZARD; HOST RANGE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALINITY; SAND; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STARVATION; SUNLIGHT; VEGETATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COMMENSAL; ENTERIC BACTERIA; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; SEAWATER; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84894505855     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800261-2.00004-9     Document Type: Chapter

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