Genetic rearrangements of Tn1546-like elements in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates collected from hospitalized patients over a seven-year period

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3903-3908

  Il, Joong Park ^a   Wee, Gyo Lee ^a,b   Young, Ae Lim ^a   Sung, Ran Cho ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University Medical Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRAND; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 37249087898     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01085-07     Document Type: Article

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