Seawater is a reservoir of multi-resistant Escherichia coli, including strains hosting plasmid-mediated quinolones resistance and extended-spectrum beta-lactamases genes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Alves, Marta S ^a   Pereira, Anabela ^a   Araújo, Susana M ^a   Castro, Bruno B ^a   Correia, António C M ^a   Henriques, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Escherichia coli; Fecal pollution; Microbial source tracking; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SEA WATER; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COASTAL WATERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEABIRD; SEWAGE;

ARA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84930669499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00426     Document Type: Article

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