Glycopeptide resistance vanA operons in Paenibacillus strains isolated from soil

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4227-4233

  Guardabassi, Luca ^a,c   Perichon, Bruno ^a   Van Heijenoort, Jean ^b   Blanot, Didier ^b   Courvalin, Patrice ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY OF THE CELL I2BC   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FUSIDIC ACID; GLYCOPEPTIDE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLASMID DNA; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PAENIBACILLUS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VANA GENE; VANB GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 25844514318     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.49.10.4227-4233.2005     Document Type: Article

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