Mechanism of chromosomal transfer of Enterococcus faecalis pathogenicity island, capsule, antimicrobial resistance, and other traits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 12269-12274

  Manson, Janet M ^a   Hancock, Lynn E ^b   Gilmore, Michael S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Horizontal gene transfer; Plasmid mobilization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; PHEROMONE; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOPHAGES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS;

EID: 77955437271     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000139107     Document Type: Article

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