Cotransfer of antibiotic resistance genes and a hylEfm -containing virulence plasmid in Enterococcus faecium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4240-4246

  Arias, Cesar A ^a,b   Panesso, Diana ^a,b   Singh, Kavindra V ^a   Rice, Louis B ^c   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HYL EFM VIRULENCE FACTOR; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; STREPTOMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOST; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PERITONITIS; PLASMIDS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 70349345815     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00242-09     Document Type: Article

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