Molecular characterization of clinical and environmental isolates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from a teaching hospital in Wales

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 821-827

  Kuriyama, Tomoari ^a   Williams, David W ^a   Patel, Mital ^a   Lewis, Michael A O ^a   Jenkins, Lynda E ^b   Hill, Dylan W ^b   Hosein, Ian K ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; UNITED KINGDOM; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WALES;

EID: 0141650500     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05123-0     Document Type: Article

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