Mobile genetic elements and their contribution to the emergence of antimicrobial resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 541-554

  Hegstad, K ^a,b   Mikalsen, T ^b   Coque, T M ^c   Werner, G ^d   Sundsfjord, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Enterococcus; Insertion sequence; Mobile genetic elements; Plasmid; Review; Transposon

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STREPTOMYCIN; STREPTOTHRICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CROSS RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST RANGE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77953953492     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03226.x     Document Type: Review

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