Epidemiological link between wastewater and human vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 468-473

  Talebi, Malihe ^a   Rahimi, Fateh ^a   Katouli, Mohammad ^b   Möllby, Roland ^c   Pourshafie, Mohammad R ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRAN; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEWAGE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WATER POLLUTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 43349098026     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9113-0     Document Type: Article

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