Is fecal carriage of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in urban rats a risk for public health?

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2013 May;57(5):2424-5. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02321-12. Epub 2013 Mar 4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bacterial Typing Techniques / veterinary
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
  • Escherichia coli / classification
  • Escherichia coli / enzymology
  • Escherichia coli / genetics*
  • Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
  • Escherichia coli Infections / epidemiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / transmission
  • Escherichia coli Infections / veterinary*
  • Feces / microbiology
  • Germany / epidemiology
  • Phylogeny
  • Public Health
  • Rats
  • Risk
  • beta-Lactamases / classification
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • beta-Lactamases