Arrangement of the vanA gene cluster in enterococci of different ecological origin

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-61

  Werner, Guido ^a   Klare, Ingo ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Genotyping; VanA; Vancomycin resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEAT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEWAGE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031460124     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00366-2     Document Type: Article

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