vanM, a new glycopeptide resistance gene cluster found in Enterococcus faecium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4643-4647

  Xu, Xiaogang ^a   Lin, Dongfang ^a   Yan, Guoquan ^b   Ye, Xinyu ^a   Wu, Shi ^a   Guo, Yan ^a   Zhu, Demei ^a   Hu, Fupin ^a   Zhang, Yingyuan ^a   Wang, Fu ^a   Jacoby, George A ^c   Wang, Minggui ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANM GENE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 78049301630     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01710-09     Document Type: Article

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