Heteroresistance to vancomycin and novel point mutations in Tn1546 of Enterococcus faecium ATCC 51559

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 27-36

  Khan, Saeed A ^a   Sung, Kidon ^a   Layton, Sherryll ^a   Nawaz, Mohamed S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Insertion element; Polymerase chain reaction; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DILUTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CARBOXYPEPTIDASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE-TYPE D-ALA-D-ALA CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 36849035481     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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