Molecular and epidemiological study of the first outbreak of vanB type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis in Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 17-22

  Oana, Kozue ^d   Kawakami, Yoshiyuki ^d   Ohnishi, Makoto ^a   Ishikawa, Masayo ^b   Hirota, Masako ^b   Tozuka, Minoru ^b   Atarashi, Kenichi ^c   Baba, Kousuke ^c   Fujiki, Kyoko ^c   Okazaki, Mitsuo ^d   Honda, Takayuki ^e   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Hokushin General Hospital   (Japan)

^d SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC CODE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; PLASMIDS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0034981398     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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