Human and swine hosts share vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium CC17 and CC5 and Enterococcus faecalis CC2 clonal clusters harboring Tn1546 on indistinguishable plasmids

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 925-931

  Freitas, Ana R ^a,b   Coque, Teresa M ^b,c,d   Novais, Carla ^a,e   Hammerum, Anette M ^f   Lester, Camilla H ^f   Zervos, Marcus J ^g,h   Donabedian, Susan ^g   Jensen, Lars B ⁱ   Francia, Maria Victoria ^j   Baquero, Fernando ^b,c,d   Peixe, Luísa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

^f STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^g HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^h WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^j HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWINE; SWITZERLAND; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EUROPEAN UNION; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SUIDAE;

EID: 79952327503     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01750-10     Document Type: Article

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