Carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamases in pig farmers is associated with occurrence in pigs

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 917-923

  Dohmen, W ^a   Bonten, M J M ^b   Bos, M E H ^a   van Marm, S ^b   Scharringa, J ^b   Wagenaar, J A ^c,d   Heederik, D J J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal reservoirs; Animals; Antimicrobial resistance; CTX M; Epidemiology; Escherichia coli; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE CARRIER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PIG; PIG FARMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; ZOONOSIS; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLASMID; RECTUM; SECRETION (PROCESS); VETERINARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FARMERS; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RECTUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942195503     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.05.032     Document Type: Article

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