First report of class 2 integron in clinical Enterococcus faecalis and class 1 integron in Enterococcus faecium in South China

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-317

  Xu, Zhenbo ^a,b   Li, Lin ^a   Shirtliff, Mark E ^b,c   Peters, Brian M ^b,c   Peng, Yi ^d   Alam, Mohammad Jahangir ^e   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a,f   Shi, Lei ^a,f  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Osaka City University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Class 1 integrons; Class 2 integron; Enterococcus faecalis; Enterococcus faecium; Gram positive bacterial

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; INTEGRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTEGRONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 77957899113     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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