Analysis of VanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates from Saudi Arabian hospitals reveals the presence of clonal cluster 17 and two new Tn 1546 lineage types

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 279-283

  Khan, Mushtaq A ^a   van der wal, Martin ^a   Farrell, David J ^b   Cossins, Luke ^b   van Belkum, Alex ^a   Alaidan, Alwaleed ^c   Hays, John P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GR Micro Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Bacterial genotypes; Multilocus sequence typing; Pulsed field gel electrophoresis; Transposons

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ENTEROCOCCUS SURFACE PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; HYALURONIDASE; LINEZOLID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN VANA; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AFRICA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SAUDI ARABIA; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE ORDER; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 47249163835     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn173     Document Type: Article

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