Transmission of vanA-type vancomycin-resistant enterococci and vanA resistance elements between chicken and humans at avoparcin-exposed farms

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-318

  Simonsen, Gunnar S ^a,b   Haaheim, Håkon ^a   Dahl, Kristin H ^a   Kruse, Hilde ^c   Løvseth, Astrid ^a   Olsvik, Ørjan ^a,b   Sundsfjord, Arnfinn ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVOPARCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; KANAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CHICKEN; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0032414383     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1998.4.313     Document Type: Article

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