VanA-type vancomycin-resistant enterococci in equine and swine rectal swabs and in human clinical samples

Current Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-246

  De Niederhäusern, Simona ^a   Sabia, Carla ^a   Messi, Patrizia ^a   Guerrieri, Elisa ^a   Manicardi, Giuliano ^a   Bondi, Moreno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Food producing animals; Plasmid; VRE

Indexed keywords

AGAR; GLYCOPEPTIDE; PLASMID DNA; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; HORSE; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HUMANS; RECTUM; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; URINE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUIDAE;

EID: 34547731976     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-007-0115-0     Document Type: Article

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