Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, Point Barrow, Alaska, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 838-839

  Drobni, Mirva ^a,c   Bonnedahl, Jonas ^a   Hernandez, Jorge ^a   Haemig, Paul ^b   Olsen, Björn ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AVOPARCIN; AZTREONAM; CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHARADRIIFORMES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 66149125233     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1505.081219     Document Type: Letter

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