Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Subclinical Infection in Pigs: Bacteriological and Genotypic Characterization and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 704-711

  Moredo, Fabiana A ^a   Piñeyro, Pablo E ^b   Márquez, Gabriela C ^c   Sanz, Marcelo ^d   Colello, Rocío ^d   Etcheverría, Analía ^d   Padola, Nora L ^d   Quiroga, María A ^a   Perfumo, Carlos J ^a   Galli, Lucía ^d   Leotta, Gerardo A ^d  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS VETERINARIAS   (Argentina)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLORFENICOL; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NITROFURANTOIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTA GENE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELTA GENE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; ESTI GENE; GENOTYPE; INTI2 GENE; NONHUMAN; PIG; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFECTS; EDEMA DISEASE OF SWINE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; RED MEAT; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SUIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EDEMA DISEASE OF SWINE; ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; RED MEAT; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84938929174     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2015.1959     Document Type: Article

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