Multiplicity of genetic backgrounds among vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates recovered from an outbreak in a New York City hospital

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-317

  Mato, Rosario ^a,c   De Lencastre, Hermínia ^a,c   Roberts, Richard B ^b   Tomasz, Alexander ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PROBE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029761793     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1996.2.309     Document Type: Article

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