Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in humans and imported chickens in Japan

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6457-6461

  Ozawa, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tanimoto, Koichi ^a   Nomura, Takahiro ^a   Yoshinaga, Masao ^b,c   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^d   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GENE SEQUENCES;

MICROBIOLOGY;

TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKEN; ENTEROCOCCUS; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; THAILAND;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; GALLUS GALLUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036951966     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.6457-6461.2002     Document Type: Article

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