Detection of the satA gene and transferability of virginiamycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium from food-animals

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 145-151

  Hammerum, Anette Marie ^a   Jensen, Lars Bogø ^a   Aarestrup, Frank Møller ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conjugative transfer; Enterococcus faecium; Food animal; satA gene; Virginiamycin resistance

Indexed keywords

DALFOPRISTIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; STREPTOGRAMIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; INTESTINES; MEAT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

EID: 0032211890     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00433-9     Document Type: Article

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