Multidrug-resistant enterococci in animal meat and faeces and Co-transfer of resistance from an Enterococcus durans to a human Enterococcus faecium

Current Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1438-1447

  Vignaroli, Carla ^a   Zandri, Giada ^a   Aquilanti, Lucia ^a   Pasquaroli, Sonia ^a   Biavasco, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AAC GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APH GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; ERM GENE; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; MEAT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TET GENE; VAN GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHICKENS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS MUNDTII; SUIDAE;

EID: 79954425808     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-011-9880-x     Document Type: Article

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