Detection of the erythromycin rRNA methylase gene erm(A) in Enterococcus faecalis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2994-2995

  Schwaiger, Karin ^a   Bauer, Johann ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; METHYLTRANSFERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

AMPLICON; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BROTH DILUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERM(A) GENE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; LETTER; MANURE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWINE; TRANSPOSON; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROMYCIN; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 48749117097     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00230-08     Document Type: Letter

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