Comparison of phenotypic methods to identify enterococci intrinsically resistant to Vancomycin (VanC VRE)

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 119-124

  Ramotarac, Karam ^a,c   Woods, Wendi ^a   Larocque, Louise ^a   Toyea, Baldwin ^a,b,c  

^a Depts of Pathol and Lab Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA METHYLGLUCOSIDE; LIGASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; FERMENTATION; GENOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033975771     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00126-1     Document Type: Article

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