Occurrence of the Plasmid-Borne mcr-1 Colistin Resistance Gene in Extended-Spectrum-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in River Water and Imported Vegetable Samples in Switzerland

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2594-2595

  Zurfuh, Katrin ^a   Poirel, Laurent ^b   Nordmann, Patrice ^b,c   Nüesch Inderbinen, Magdalena ^a   Hächler, Herbert ^a   Stephan, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN MCR 1; RIVER WATER; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM; BETA LACTAMASE;

AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND; VEGETABLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; RIVER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RIVERS; SWITZERLAND; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VEGETABLES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84963761374     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00066-16     Document Type: Letter

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