Glycopeptide susceptibility among Danish Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis isolates of animal and human origin and PCR identification of genes within the VanA cluster

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1938-1940

  Aarestrup, Frank Møller ^a   Ahrens, Peter ^a   Madsen, Mogens ^a   Pallesen, Lars V ^b   Poulsen, Rikke Lykke ^b   Westh, Henrik ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOPARCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DENMARK; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029843861     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.40.8.1938     Document Type: Article

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