Drug resistance of Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates and the conjugative transfer of gentamicin and erythromycin resistance traits

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 347-354

  Takeuchi, Kunio ^a   Tomita, Haruyoshi ^a   Fujimoto, Shuhei ^a   Kudo, Michiaki ^a   Kuwano, Hiroyuki ^a   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conjugative plasmid; Conjugative transposon; Drug resistance; Enterococcus faecium

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; PHEROMONE; RIFAMPICIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FILTER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 15944404254     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.022     Document Type: Article

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