Detection of multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli in the urban waterways of Milwaukee, WI

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Kappell, Anthony D ^a   De Nies, Maxwell S ^a   Ahuja, Neha H ^a   Ledeboer, Nathan A ^b,c   Newton, Ryan J ^d   Hristova, Krassimira R ^a  

^a Marquette University   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c DYNACARE LABORATORIES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance bacteria; Antibiotic resistance genes; E. coli; Environment; Great Lakes; Sediment

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; NEOMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHENOTYPE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URBAN WATERWAY; WATER SUPPLY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84930937287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.00336     Document Type: Article

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