Poultry and beef meat as potential seedbeds for antimicrobial resistant enterotoxigenic Bacillus species: a materializing epidemiological and potential severe health hazard

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Osman, Kamelia M ^a   Kappell, Anthony D ^b   Orabi, Ahmed ^a   Al Maary, Khalid S ^c   Mubarak, Ayman S ^c   Dawoud, Turki M ^c   Hemeg, Hassan A ^d   Moussa, Ihab M I ^c   Hessain, Ashgan M ^e   Yousef, Hend M Y ^a   Hristova, Krassimira R ^f  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b Marquette University   (United States)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Marquette University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACILLUS CEREUS; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PAENIBACILLUS; PATHOGENICITY; POULTRY PRODUCT;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MEAT; PAENIBACILLUS; POULTRY PRODUCTS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 85051079901     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29932-3     Document Type: Article

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