Clinical and epidemiologic significance of enterococci intrinsically resistant to vancomycin (possessing the vanC genotype)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3166-3170

  Toye, Baldwin ^a,b   Shymanski, Josée ^a   Bobrowska, Maria ^b   Woods, Wendi ^a   Ramotar, Karam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; VANC PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANADA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0030608708     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.12.3166-3170.1997     Document Type: Article

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