Molecular epidemiology of hospital-acquired vancomycin-resistant enterococci

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4009-4013

  Abele Horn, Marianne ^a   Vogel, Ulrich ^a   Klare, Ingo ^b   Konstabel, Carola ^b   Trabold, Rene ^a   Kurihara, Risa ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^b   Kreth, Wolfgang ^a   Schlegel, Paul Gerhardt ^a   Claus, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 33750963097     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00195-06     Document Type: Article

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