Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clone in swine, Europe [11]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1985-1987

  Novais, Carla ^a   Coque, Teresa M ^b   Boerlin, Patrick ^c   Herrero, Inmaculada ^d   Moreno, Miguel A ^d   Dominguez, Lucas ^d   Peixe, Luísa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AVOPARCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; KANAMYCIN; LINEZOLID; NITROFURANTOIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE STRUCTURE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PURK GENE; SWINE; TN1546 GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 33644821706     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1112.050822     Document Type: Letter

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