Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains with highly similar pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns containing similar Tn1546-like elements isolated from a hospitalized patient and pigs in Denmark [2]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 724-725

  Jensen, Lars Bogø ^a   Hammerum, Anette M ^a   Poulsen, Rikke Lykke ^b   Westh, Henrik ^c,d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOPARCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0033011812     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.43.3.724     Document Type: Letter

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