First detection of the antiseptic resistance gene qacA/B in Enterococcus faecalis

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-12

  Bischoff, Meike ^a   Bauer, Johann ^a   Preikschat, Petra ^b   Schwaiger, Karin ^a   Mölle, Gabriele ^b   Hölzel, Christina ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DIDECYLDIMETHYLAMMONIUM CHLORIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MEZLOCILLIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TIGECYCLINE; TYLOSIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD; CATTLE; CHEESE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FARM ANIMAL; FECES; FOOD; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QACA GENE; QACB GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CATTLE; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEAT PRODUCTS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM;

ANIMALIA; BOS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 84856762866     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2011.0092     Document Type: Article

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