Evidence for transmission between humans and the environment of a nosocomial strain of Enterococcus faecium

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-59

  Iversen, Aina ^a   Kühn, Inger ^a   Rahman, Mokhlasur ^a   Franklin, Anders ^b   Burman, Lars G ^c   Olsson Liljequist, Barbro ^c   Torell, Erik ^d   Möllby, Roland ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATTLE; CHICKEN; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEWAGE; SWINE;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CROSS INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; SEWAGE; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GALLUS GALLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0842331141     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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