Genetic linkage and cotransfer of a novel, vanB-containing transposon (Tn5382) and a low-affinity penicillin-binding protein 5 gene in a clinical vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolate

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 4426-4434

  Carias, Lenore L ^a   Rudin, Susan D ^a   Donskey, Curtis J ^a   Rice, Louis B ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; INTEGRASE; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CROSS LINKING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC LINKAGE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATOR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031783527     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.17.4426-4434.1998     Document Type: Article

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