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Fitness and dissemination of disinfectant-selected multiple-antibiotic-resistant (MAR) strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in chickens.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Jan 2008
Randall Luke P, Bagnall M C, Karatzas K A, Coldham Nick C, Piddock Laura J V, Woodward Martin J
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OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to determine whether strains of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium which had acquired low-level multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) through repeated exposure to farm disinfectants were able to colonize and transmit between chicks as easily as the parent strain and, if such strains were less susceptible to fluoroquinolones, would high-level resistance be selected after...
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