Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium VanA phenotype: First documented isolation in India

Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 335-337

  Mohanty, Srujana ^a   Dhawan, Benu ^a   Gadepalli, R S ^a   Lodha, Rakesh ^a   Kapil, Arti ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGASE; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EQUIPMENT; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHENOTYPE; SEPSIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33746098116     PISSN: 01251562     EISSN: 26975718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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