Identification of an unusual VanA element in glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Brazil following international transfer of a bone marrow transplant patient

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 767-770

  Camargo, I L B C ^a   Del Peloso, P F ^b   Da Costa Leite, C F ^b   Goldman, G H ^a   Darini, A L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Laboratório Richet   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Inter hospital spread; IS1251; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; BONE; CLONING; GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

BONE MARROW; GENOTYPE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION (MIC); VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS (VRE);

BACTERIA;

GLYCOPEPTIDE; MUTANT PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAZIL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VANA GENE; VANRSHAX GENE; VANSH GENE;

AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAZIL; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 11144322754     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/w04-054     Document Type: Article

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