Hospital and community ampicillin-resistant Enterococcus faecium are evolutionarily closely linked but have diversified through niche adaptation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  de Regt, Marieke J A ^a   van Schaik, Willem ^a   van Luit Asbroek, Miranda ^a   Dekker, Huberta A T ^a   van Duijkeren, Engeline ^b   Koning, Catherina J M ^c   Bonten, Marc J M ^a   Willems, Rob J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACM GENE; AMPICILLIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; ECBA GENE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESP GENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORSE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYL GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IS16 GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; ORF1481 GENE; ORF903 GENE; ORF905 GENE; ORF907 GENE; PBP5 GENE; PILA GENE; PILB GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAGA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SGRA GENE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMPICILLIN; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CATS; DOGS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HORSES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84857173263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030319     Document Type: Article

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