A trilocus sequence typing scheme for hospital epidemiology and subspecies differentiation of an important nosocomial pathogen, Enterococcus faecalis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2713-2719

  Chowdhury, Shahreen A ^a   Arias, Cesar A ^a,b   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Reyes, Jinnethe ^b   Willems, Rob J L ^c   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 69949106201     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00667-09     Document Type: Article

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