vanD and vanG-like gene clusters in a Ruminococcus species isolated from human bowel flora

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 4111-4117

  Domingo, M C ^a,b   Huletsky, A ^a,b   Giroux, R ^a   Picard, F J ^a,b   Bergeron, M G ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTEIN VANG; PROTEIN VANS G; PROTEIN VANT G; RNA 16S; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES MICROFLORA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTD GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUMINOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VAND GENE; VANG GENE; VANG1 GENE; VANG2 GENE;

EID: 35848947770     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00584-07     Document Type: Article

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