Occurrence and genetic characteristics of third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli in Swiss retail meat

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 485-494

  Vogt, Debora ^a   Overesch, Gudrun ^a   Endimiani, Andrea ^b   Collaud, Alexandra ^a   Thomann, Andreas ^a   Perreten, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE CTX M; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; SULFONAMIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BEEF; BIRD; CEPHALOSPORIN RESISTANT ESCHERICHIA COLI; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC TRAIT; MEAT; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORK; REPLICON; SWITZERLAND; VEAL; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BOVINE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT INDUSTRY; METABOLISM; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PIG; POULTRY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CATTLE; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MEAT; MEAT-PACKING INDUSTRY; PLASMIDS; POULTRY; SULFONAMIDES; SWINE; SWITZERLAND; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 84907269309     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2013.0210     Document Type: Article

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