First report of VanA Enterococcus gallinarum dissemination within an intensive care unit in Argentina

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-56

  Corso, A ^a   Faccone, D ^a   Gagetti, P ^a   Togneri, A ^a   Lopardo, H ^c   Melano, R ^a   Rodriguez V ^b   Rodriguez, M ^a   Galas, M ^a  

^a Inst Nac Enferm Infecciosas A   (Argentina)

^b Hosp Interzonal Gen Agudos Evita   (Argentina)

^c HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Enterococcus gallinarum; Glycopeptide resistance; vanA

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARGENTINA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES, TYPE II SITE-SPECIFIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 11144272222     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.07.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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