Association between the vanB2 glycopepetide resistance operon and Tn1549 in enterococci from France

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 253-256

  Umeda, A ^a,b   Garnier, F ^a,c   Courvalin, P ^a   Galimand, M ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c DUPUYTREN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VANB PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; FRANCE; GENE CLUSTER; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; TRANSPOSON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FRANCE; GLYCOPEPTIDES; HUMANS; OPERON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0036668116     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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