Analysis of mobile genetic elements and resistance genes found in commensal Escherichia coli from the gut of children and animals from a semi-rural community close to Quito
- Format
- MasterThesis
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
A problem that threatens human health today is the development of multiresistant bacteria or "super-bacteria", which can be found in the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans as a commensal microbiota. The use of antimicrobials in animal husbandry is difficult to control and leads to an increase in antibiotic resistance...
Un problema que amenaza la salud humana hoy en día es el desarrollo de bacterias multiresistentes o “súper-bacterias”, las cuales se pueden encontrar en el tracto gastrointestinal de animales y humanos como microbiota comensal. El uso de antimicrobianos en la crianza de animales es difícil de controlar y contribuye al incremento de resistencia a antibióticos en humanos...
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Language
- Topic
- Escherichia coli -- Genética bacteriana -- Análisis -- Tesis y disertaciones académicas
Intestinos -- Microbiología
Ciencias
Microbiología
- Repository
- Repositorio Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Get full text
- http://repositorio.usfq.edu.ec/handle/23000/7195
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ec/