Antimicrobial resistance and virulence factor gene profiles of Enterococcus spp. isolates from wild Arctocephalus australis (South American fur seal) and Arctocephalus tropicalis (Subantarctic fur seal)

World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1935-1946

  Santestevan, Naiara Aguiar ^a   de Angelis Zvoboda, Dejoara ^a   Prichula, Janira ^b   Pereira, Rebeca Inhoque ^b   Wachholz, Guilherme Raffo ^b   Cardoso, Leonardo Almansa ^a   de Moura, Tiane Martin ^b   Medeiros, Aline Weber ^a   de Amorin, Derek Blaese ^a   Tavares, Maurício ^a   d’Azevedo, Pedro Alves ^b   Franco, Ana Claudia ^a   Frazzon, Jeverson ^a   Frazzon, Ana Paula Guedes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Federal University of Health Sciences Porto Alegre   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial susceptibility; Enterococci species; Virulence genes; Wild fur seals

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS; MARINE POLLUTION; MICROORGANISMS; WATER POLLUTION;

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENTEROCOCCI SPECIES; FUR SEALS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENOTYPIC CHARACTERIZATION; PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS; VIRULENCE GENE;

GENES;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; OTARIIDAE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; VIRULENCE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; FUR SEALS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84945455743     PISSN: 09593993     EISSN: 15730972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11274-015-1938-7     Document Type: Article

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