References

Aarestrup, F.M., A.M. Seyfarth, H.D. Emborg, F. Bager, K. Pedersen and S.E. Jorsal, 2000. Antibiotic use in food-animal production in Denmark. APUA Newslett., 18: 1-3.

Aarestrup, F.M., F. Bager, N.E. Jensen, M. Madsen, A. Meyling and H.C. Wegener, 1998. Resistance to antimicrobial agents used for animal therapy in pathogenic-, zoonotic- and indicator bacteria isolated from different food animals in Denmark: A baseline study for the Danish Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Programme (DANMAP). Apmis, 106: 745-770.
PubMed  |  

Bager, F., F.M. Aarestrup, N.E. Jensen, M. Madsen, A. Meyling and H.C. Wegener, 1999. Design of a system for monitoring antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic, zoonotic and indicator bacteria from food animals. Acta Vet. Scand. Suppl., 92: 77-86.
PubMed  |  

Bauer, A.W., W.M.M. Kirby, J.C. Sherris and M. Turck, 1966. Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method. Am. J. Clin. Pathol., 45: 493-496.
CrossRef  |  PubMed  |  Direct Link  |  

D'Costa, V.M., K.M. McGrann, D.W. Hughes and G.D. Wright, 2006. Sampling the antibiotic resistome. Science, 311: 374-377.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |  

Kramer, A., I. Schwebke and G. Kampf, 2006. How long do nosocomial pathogens persist on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review. BMC Infect. Dis., 6: 130-130.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |  

Makinson, C. and J. Swan, 2006. The effect of humidity on the survival of MRSA on Hard Surfaces. Indoor Built Environ., 15: 85-91.
CrossRef  |  

Murray, R.P. and R.J. Zeitinger, 1983. Evaluation of mueller-hinton agar for disk diffusion susceptibility test. J. Clin. Microbiol., 18: 1269-1271.
Direct Link  |  

NCCLS., 2002. Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: Twelfth Informational Supplement, M100-S12 (M2). National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS), Wayne, PA., USA.

Wegener, H.C., F. Bager and F.M. Aarestrup, 1997. Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in humans, food stuffs and livestock in Denmark. Euro Surveill., 2: 17-19.
PubMed  |  

Wright, G.D., 2007. The antibiotic resistome: The nexus of chemical and genetic diversity. Nat. Rev. Microbiol., 5: 175-186.
CrossRef  |  Direct Link  |