Prevalence of vanC vancomycin-resistant enterococci in the teaching hospitals of the university of Debrecen, Hungary

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-51

  Dombrádi, Zsuzsanna ^a   Dobay, Orsolya ^b   Nagy, Károly ^b   Kozák, Anita ^a   Dombrádi, Viktor ^a   Szabó, Judit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANA PROTEIN; VANB PROTEIN; VANC1 PROTEIN; VANC2 PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN; VAND PROTEIN; VANE PROTEIN; VANG PROTEIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; EPSILOMETER TEST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUNGARY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HUNGARY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM;

EID: 84856726092     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2011.0014     Document Type: Article

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