Molecular epidemiologic analysis of enterococcus faecalis isolates in cuba by multilocus sequence typing

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-293

  Quiñones, Dianelys ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumichi ^b   Nagashima, Shigeo ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CUBA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 70350464917     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2009.0028     Document Type: Article

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