Population structure of Enterococcus faecium causing bacteremia in a Spanish University Hospital: Setting the scene for a future increase in vancomycin resistance?

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2693-2700

  Coque, Teresa M ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^b,c   Fortín, Jesús ^a   Top, Janetta ^b,c   Diz, Sergio ^a   Loza, Elena ^a   Cantón, Rafael ^a   Baquero, Fernando ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLELISM; AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESP GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYL GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PURK GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SPAIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 21444441541     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.2693-2700.2005     Document Type: Article

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