A decade-long commitment to antimicrobial resistance surveillance in Portugal

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue OCT, 2016, Pages

  Marinho, Catarina M ^a   Santos, Tiago ^a   Gonçalves, Alexandre ^a   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b   Igrejas, Gilberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enterococci; Escherichia coli; Molecular microbiology; Surveillance; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLONE; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; ENTEROCOCCUS; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD ORGANISM; HUMAN; MICROFLORA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 84996835559     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01650     Document Type: Review

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