Complete sequence of Enterococcus faecium pVEF3 and the detection of an ω-ε-ζ toxin-antitoxin module and an ABC transporter

Plasmid

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-85

  Sletvold, H ^a   Johnsen, P J ^a   Hamre, I ^a   Simonsen, G S ^b,c,d   Sundsfjord, A ^b,c   Nielsen, K M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^e University of Tromsö   (Norway)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Glycopeptide; Persistence; Resistance; Toxin antitoxin; vanA

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; AMPICILLIN; ANTITOXIN; AVOPARCIN; BACITRACIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; COPPER; DOXYCYCLINE; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; MONENSIN; NARASIN; NICARBAZIN; NITROCEFIN; OMEGA EPSILON ZETA TOXIN ANTITOXIN; RIFAMPICIN; SALINOMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TINIDAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; TOLTRAZURIL; TOXIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID PVEF3; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITOXINS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 44649177564     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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