Clonal spread of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strain among bloodstream-infecting isolates in Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1575-1580

  Stampone, Lucia ^a   Del Grosso, Maria ^a   Boccia, Delia ^a,b   Pantosti, Annalisa ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; ITALY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 16844367892     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.4.1575-1580.2005     Document Type: Article

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