Nosocomial superinfections due to linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecalis: Evidence for a gene dosage effect on linezolid MICs

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 511-513

  Ruggero, Kathleen A ^a   Schroeder, Laura K ^a   Schreckenberger, Paul C ^a   Mankin, Alexander S ^a   Quinn, John P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; RIBOSOME RNA; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PANCREATITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEPSIS;

EID: 0242365629     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(03)00153-6     Document Type: Article

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