High-level ciprofloxacin resistance among hospital-adapted Enterococcus faecium (CC17)

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-125

  Werner, Guido ^a   Fleige, Carola ^a   Ewert, Birgit ^a,b   Laverde Gomez, Jenny A ^a   Klare, Ingo ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

CC17; Enterococcus; gyrA; parC; vanA

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; PROTEIN PARC; PROTEIN PARE;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 72449208604     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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