A cluster of VanD vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium: Molecular characterization and clinical epidemiology

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1177-1185

  Ostrowsky, Belinda E ^a,c   Clark, Nancye C ^b   Thauvin Eliopoulos, Claudie ^a   Venkataraman, Lata ^a   Samore, Matthew H ^a,c   Tenover, Fred C ^b   Eliopoulos, George M ^a   Moellering Jr , Robert C ^a   Gold, Howard S ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033394802     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315030     Document Type: Article

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