Analysis of the prevalence of tetracycline resistance genes in clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium in a Japanese hospital

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 146-153

  Nishimoto, Yutaka ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumichi ^b   Alam, Mohammed Mahbub ^b   Ishino, Masaho ^b   Uehara, Nobuyuki ^b   Watanabe, Naoki ^b  

^a Hanshin Hospital   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL; JAPAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TET(K) GENE; TET(L) GENE; TET(M) GENE; TET(O) GENE; TET(S) GENE; TET(T) GENE; TET(U) GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ERAGROSTIS TEF; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 18944408103     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.146     Document Type: Article

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