Phenotypic and genetic characterization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci from hospitalized humans and from poultry in Korea

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-200

  Woo, Kyung Jung ^a   Soon, Keun Hong ^a   Ji, Youn Lim ^a,d   Suk, Kyung Lim ^b   Nam, Hoon Kwon ^a   Jun, Man Kim ^a   Hye, Cheong Koo ^a   So, Hyun Kim ^a   Keun, Seok Seo ^a,d   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^c   Tanimoto, Koichi ^c   Yong, Ho Park ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

PFGE; Poultry; Tn1546 like element; Transferability; VRE

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KOREA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPOSON; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POULTRY; POULTRY DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33745535282     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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