Nucleotide substitutions in vanC-2 gene of Enterococcus casseliflavus isolates obtained from chickens

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 421-424

  Murase, T ^a   Mito, Y ^a   Otsuki, K ^a   Suzuki, R ^b   Yamai, S ^b  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CHICKENS; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 0036773140     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268802007501     Document Type: Article

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