Detection of a novel aph(2″) allele (aph[2″]-Ie) conferring high-level gentamicin resistance and a spectinomycin resistance gene ant(9)-Ia (aad9) in clinical isolates of enterococci

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-247

  Alam, Mohammed Mahbub ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumichi ^a   Ishino, Masaho ^a   Sumi, Ayako ^a   Kobayashi, Ken Ichiro ^a   Uehara, Nobuyuki ^a   Watanabe, Naoki ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; RNA 16S; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANT9 IA GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ALLELES; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); SPECTINOMYCIN;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FORMICIDAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 26444490099     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2005.11.239     Document Type: Article

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