First VanD-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus raffinosus isolate [1]

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3966-3967

  Tanimoto, Koichi ^a   Nomura, Takahiro ^a   Maruyama, Hideyuki ^b,d   Tomita, Haruyoshi ^a   Shibata, Naohiro ^c   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^c   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^d Chibaken Saiseikai Narashino Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; RNA 16S; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS RAFFINOSUS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAND GENE;

AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIABETIC FOOT; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MALE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 33750586566     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00607-06     Document Type: Letter

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