Short communication: Heat-resistant Escherichia coli as potential persistent reservoir of extended-spectrum β-lactamases and Shiga toxin-encoding phages in dairy

Journal of Dairy Science

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 8622-8632

  Marti, Roger ^a   Muniesa, Maite ^b   Schmid, Michael ^c   Ahrens, Christian H ^c   Naskova, Javorka ^a   Hummerjohann, Jörg ^a  

^a Agroscope Institute for Food Sciences IFS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

dairy; Escherichia coli; extended spectrum lactamase; heat resistance; horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; SHIGA TOXIN;

ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; CHEESE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PLASMID; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHEESE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; MILK; PLASMIDS; SHIGA TOXIN; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 85002821973     PISSN: 00220302     EISSN: 15253198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3168/jds.2016-11076     Document Type: Article

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