Molecular typing of Enterococcus faecalis strains resistant to high levels of gentamicin and isolated in Romania

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-491

  Strautt, Monica ^a,b   De Cespédès, Gilda ^a   Delbos, Françoise ^a   Horaud, Thea ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; ROMANIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENDONUCLEASES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENTAMICINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; ROMANIA;

EID: 0030944088     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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