A vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolate from a Danish healthy volunteer, detected 7 years after the ban of avoparcin, is possibly related to pig isolates [3]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 547-549

  Hammerum, Anette M ^a   Lester, Camilla H ^a   Neimann, Jakob ^b   Porsbo, Lone J ^b   Olsen, Katharina E P ^a   Jensen, Lars Bogøo ^b   Emborg, Hanne Dorthe ^b   Wegener, Henrik C ^b   Frimodt Moller, Niels ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gene transfer; PFGE; VanA

Indexed keywords

AVOPARCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN; YOGHURT;

ADULT; ANIMAL CARE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASE PAIRING; CASE REPORT; DENMARK; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OFFICE WORKER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; VOLUNTEER;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DENMARK; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; SWINE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 1642316287     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh101     Document Type: Letter

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