Five genes encoding surface-exposed LPXTG proteins are enriched in hospital-adapted Enterococcus faecium clonal complex 17 isolates

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 8321-8332

  Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^a   Van Wamel, Willem J B ^b   Posthuma, George ^c   Bonten, Marc J M ^a,d   Willems, Rob J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Institute of Biomembranes   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Medicine   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; LEUCYLPROLYLTHREONYLGLYCINE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL WALL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 36549076561     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00664-07     Document Type: Article

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