Houseflies (Musca domestica) as vectors for extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli on Spanish broiler farms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3604-3611

  Solà Ginés, Marc ^a   González López, Juan José ^b   Cameron Veas, Karla ^a   Piedra Carrasco, Nuria ^b   Cerdà Cuéllar, Marta ^a   Migura Garcia, Lourdes ^a  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES;

FARM ENVIRONMENTS; MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PATHOGENIC E. COLI; POTENTIAL VECTORS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESISTANT BACTERIA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

CLONE; COLONIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NICHE; PATHOGENICITY; PERSISTENCE; POULTRY;

SPAIN;

AVES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUSCA DOMESTICA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HOUSE FLY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPAIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CEPHALOSPORINS; DISEASE VECTORS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOUSEFLIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; SPAIN;

EID: 84930019678     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.04252-14     Document Type: Article

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