Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from community wastewater from a semiclosed agri-food system in Texas

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4382-4385

  Poole, T L ^a   Hume, M E ^a   Campbell, L D ^b   Scott, H M ^b   Alali, W Q ^b   Harvey, R B ^a  

^a SOUTHERN PLAINS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; VANCOMYCIN;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; UNITED STATES; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WASTE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TEXAS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 25844461462     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.10.4382-4385.2005     Document Type: Article

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