Transmission of antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli between cattle, humans and the environment in peri-urban livestock keeping communities in Morogoro, Tanzania

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 477-482

  Lupindu, Athumani M ^a   Dalsgaard, Anders ^b   Msoffe, Peter L M ^c   Ngowi, Helena A ^a   Mtambo, Madundo M ^a,d   Olsen, John E ^b  

^a SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA   (Tanzania)

^d Tanzania Industrial Research and Development Organization (TIRDO)   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

E. coli; Genetic relatedness; PFGE; Urban livestock farming

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BOVINE; CATTLE DISEASES; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TANZANIA; TRANSMISSION; URBAN POPULATION; VETERINARY;

AMPICILLIN; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; GENOTYPE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TANZANIA; TETRACYCLINE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84922998519     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2014.12.005     Document Type: Article

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