Transferable capacity for gastrointestinal colonization in Enterococcus faecium in a mouse model

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 342-349

  Rice, Louis B ^a,b   Laktičová, Viera ^a   Carias, Lenore L ^a   Rudin, Susan ^a   Hutton, Rebecca ^a   Marshall, Steven H ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Medical Service 111(W)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; DNA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 58849124269     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595986     Document Type: Article

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