Undomesticated animals as a reservoir of multidrug-resistant enterococcus in Eastern Poland

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 645-650

  Nowakiewicz, Aneta ^a   Ziółkowska, Grazyna ^a   Zieba, Przemysław ^b   Kostruba, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b State Veterinary Laboratory   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterococcus; Exotic animals; Vancomycin resistance strains; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POLAND; VETERINARY; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; MALE; POLAND;

EID: 84904017805     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/2013-09-240     Document Type: Article

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