Assessment of environmental enterococci: Bacterial antagonism, pathogenic capacity and antibiotic resistance

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 555-562

  Pangallo, Domenico ^a   Drahovská, Hana ^b   Harichová, Jana ^a   Karelová, Edita ^a   Chovanová, Katarína ^a   Ferianc, Peter ^a   Turňa, Ján ^b   Timko, Jozef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Enterocins; Environmental enterococci; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYTOLYSIN; ENTEROCIN 31 PROTEIN; ENTEROCIN A PROTEIN; ENTEROCIN B PROTEIN; ENTEROCIN L50AB PROTEIN; ENTEROCIN P PROTEIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GELATINASE; GENTAMICIN; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSPOT ASSAY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; LISTERIA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIOCINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; LISTERIA; MANURE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA;

EID: 53349147954     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-008-9272-9     Document Type: Article

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