Dogs are a reservoir of ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium lineages associated with human infections

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2360-2365

  Damborg, Peter ^a   Top, Janetta ^b   Hendrickx, Antoni P A ^b   Dawson, Susan ^c   Willems, Rob J L ^b   Guardabassi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCES; CLONAL COMPLEXES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; HEALTHY HUMANS; HUMAN INFECTIONS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NOSOCOMIAL PATHOGENS; SOUTHERN HYBRIDIZATIONS; UNITED KINGDOMS; VIRULENCE GENES;

HOSPITALS;

SETTLING TANKS;

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIUM; CANID;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DOG; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRULENCE;

AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER STATE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 64749114498     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02035-08     Document Type: Article

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