Association of Veterinary Third-Generation Cephalosporin Use with the Risk of Emergence of Extended-Spectrum-Cephalosporin Resistance in Escherichia coli from Dairy Cattle in Japan

• Toyotaka Sato,

  Current address: Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Leidos-Frederick, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

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• Torahiko Okubo,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

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• Masaru Usui,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

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• Shin-ichi Yokota,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Satoshi Izumiyama,

  Affiliation Nemuro District Agriculture Mutual Aid Association, Nakashibetsu, Japan

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• Yutaka Tamura

  * E-mail: tamuray@rakuno.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Food Microbiology and Food Safety, Department of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan

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