ccrABEnt serine recombinase genes are widely distributed in the Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus casseliflavus species groups and are expressed in E. faecium

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3624-3634

  Bjørkeng, Eva Katrin ^a   Tessema, Girum Tadesse ^a,f,g   Lundblad, Eirik Wasmuth ^b   Butaye, Patrick ^c,d   Willems, Rob ^e   Sollid, Johanna Ericsson ^a   Sundsfjord, Arnfinn ^a,b   Hegstad, Kristin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^f NOFIMA   (Norway)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CCRAB PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINASES;

EID: 78650063892     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.041491-0     Document Type: Article

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