D-Ala-D-Ser VanN-type transferable vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus faecium

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4606-4612

  Lebreton, François ^a   Depardieu, Florence ^b   Bourdon, Nancy ^a   Fines Guyon, Marguerite ^a   Berger, Pierre ^c   Camiade, Sabine ^d   Leclercq, Roland ^a   Courvalin, Patrice ^b   Cattoir, Vincent ^a  

^a CHU CÔTE DE NACRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^d Laboratoire Alphabio   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE SERINE VANL LIGASE; AMPICILLIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VANN PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 80052837921     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00714-11     Document Type: Article

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