Carbapenem-resistant enterobacter spp. In retail seafood imported from southeast asia to Canada

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1675-1677

  Janecko, Nicol ^a,b   Martz, Sarah Lynn ^a,b   Avery, Brent P ^a   Daignault, Danielle ^a   Desruisseau, Andrea ^a   Boyd, David ^a   Irwin, Rebecca J ^a,b   Mulvey, Michael R ^a   Reid Smith, Richard J ^a,b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFOXITIN; ERTAPENEM; MEROPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BLA GENE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; INHIBITION ZONE; LETTER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PENAEUS MONODON; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEA FOOD; SHRIMP; BACTERIAL GENOME; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD POISONING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRANSMISSION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CANADA; CARBAPENEMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, IMPORTED; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOODBORNE DISEASES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SEAFOOD; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING;

EID: 84988416856     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2209.160305     Document Type: Letter

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