Comparison of agar-based media for primary isolation of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 559-563

  Chadwick, P R ^a,d   Brown, D F J ^b   Wilcox, M H ^b   Collyns, T A ^a   Walpole, E ^b   Dillon, J ^b   Smith, R ^b   Gopal Rao, G ^c   Oppenheim, B A ^a  

^a WITHINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Glycopeptide resistance; Isolation; Microbiological techniques; Vancomycin resistance

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPHOTERICIN; AZIDE; AZTREONAM; ESCULIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

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

EID: 0030813813     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1997.tb00308.x     Document Type: Article

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