Glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium BM4416 is a VanD-type strain with an impaired D-alanine:D-alanine ligase

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1346-1348

  Perichon, Bruno ^a   Casadewall, Barbara ^a   Reynolds, Peter ^b   Courvalin, Patrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOPEPTIDE; LIGASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENZYME DEFECT; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0034101980     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.44.5.1346-1348.2000     Document Type: Article

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