Bacteriophages isolated from chicken meat and the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4600-4606

  Shousha, Amira ^a   Awaiwanont, Nattakarn ^a   Sofka, Dmitrij ^a   Smulders, Frans J M ^a   Paulsen, Peter ^a   Szostak, Michael P ^a   Humphrey, Tom ^b   Hilbert, Friederike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; HEALTH RISKS; MEATS; MICROORGANISMS;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CHICKEN MEAT; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; HUMAN HEALTH; LATTER MECHANISM; RESISTANT BACTERIA; TRANSDUCING; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

BACTERIOPHAGES;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIOPHAGE; HEALTH RISK; MEAT; PLASMID; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAMPLING;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHICKENS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MEAT; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84931326353     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00872-15     Document Type: Article

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