Genetic detection and multilocus sequence typing of vanA-containing enterococcus strains from mullets fish (Liza ramada)

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 357-361

  Araújo, Carlos ^a,b   Torres, Carmen ^c   Gonçalves, Alexandre ^a,b   Carneiro, Catarina ^a   López, Maria ^c   Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   Pardal, Miguel ^d   Igrejas, Gilberto ^b   Poeta, Patrícia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; PROTEIN VANA; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FISH; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIZA RAMADA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GLYCOPEPTIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; SMEGMAMORPHA; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; LIZA RAMADA; MUGILIDAE;

EID: 80052213095     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2010.0171     Document Type: Article

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