Detection of the high-level aminoglycoside resistance gene aph(2'')-Ib in Enterococcus faecium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2876-2879

  Kao, S J ^a   You, I ^a   Clewell, D B ^a   Donabedian, S M ^a   Zervos, M J ^a   Petrin, J ^a   Shaw, K J ^a   Chow, J W ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIBEKACIN; GENTAMICIN; HABEKACIN; ISEPAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PLASMID DNA; TOBRAMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ELECTROPORATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTICS, AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENTAMICINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0033803208     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.10.2876-2879.2000     Document Type: Article

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