Detection and typing of vancomycin-resistance genes of enterococci from clinical and nosocomial surveillance specimens by multiplex PCR

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 357-363

  Lu, J J ^a   Perng, C L ^a   Chiueh, T S ^a   Lee, S Y ^a   Chen, C H ^a   Chang, F Y ^a   Wang, C C ^a   Chi, W M ^a  

^a TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANA PROTEIN; VANB PROTEIN; VANC1 PROTEIN; VANC2 PROTEIN; VANC3 PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUCONOSTOC; NONHUMAN; PEDIOCOCCUS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; R FACTOR; RECTUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FECES; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RECTUM; SEROTYPING; TAIWAN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0034944378     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268801005453     Document Type: Article

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