High occurrence of esp among ampicillin-resistant and vancomycin-susceptible Enterococcus faecium clones form hospitalized patients

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1035-1038

  Coque, Teresa M ^a   Willems, Rob ^b   Cantón, Rafael ^a   Del Campo, Rosa ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ampicillin; Enterococcus faecium; esp

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN ESP; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENT; FECES; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VOLUNTEER;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONE CELLS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PATIENT ADMISSION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 12244288871     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkf229     Document Type: Article

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