High-level gentamicin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains isolated from bone marrow transplant patients: accumulation of antibiotic resistance genes, large plasmids and clonal strain dissemination

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 658-664

  Abbassi, Mohamed Salah ^a   Achour, Wafa ^a   Hassen, Assia Ben ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE GREFFE DE MOELLE OSSEUSE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance genes; Enterococcus faecium; High level gentamicin resistance; Neutropenic patients; Outbreak; Plasmid

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; OFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENTAMICIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 34248231636     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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