A new high-level gentamicin resistance gene, aph(2'')-Id, in Enterococcus spp.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1229-1232

  Tsai, Shane F ^a   Zervos, Marcus J ^c   Clewell, Don B ^d   Donabedian, Susan M ^c   Sahm, Daniel F ^e,f   Chow, Joseph W ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MRL Pharmaceutical Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; DIBEKACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; NETILMICIN; PENTISOMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031970944     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.5.1229     Document Type: Article

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