Pheromone-responsive conjugative vancomycin resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecalis isolates from humans and chicken feces

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 6544-6553

  Lim, Suk Kyung ^a,b   Tanimoto, Koichi ^a   Tomita, Haruyoshi ^a   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DRUG DOSAGE; GENES; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS (VRE);

BACTERIOLOGY;

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; SEX PHEROMONE; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; FECAL COLIFORM; PHEROMONE; PLASMID;

AAC(6') GENE; APH(2') GENE; APH(3') GENE; APH(6') GENE; ARTICLE; ASA1 GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHICKEN; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERMB GENE; FECES; GENETIC CODE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KOREA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 33750064276     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00749-06     Document Type: Article

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