Persistence of vanA-type Enterococcus faecium in Korean livestock after ban on avoparcin

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-139

  Lim, Suk Kyung ^a   Kim, Tae Soon ^b   Lee, Hee Soo ^a   Nam, Hyang Mi ^a   Joo, Yi Seok ^a   Koh, Hong Bum ^b  

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

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOPARCIN; COPPER SULFATE; DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOOD ADDITIVE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHICKEN; COW; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; KOREA; LIVESTOCK; MEAT; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SWINE; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANX GENE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CHICKENS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GLYCOPEPTIDES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; KOREA; MEAT; MUTATION; POULTRY DISEASES; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BOS TAURUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33746687837     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2006.12.136     Document Type: Article

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