Prevalence of bacteriocin activities and bacteriocin-encoding genes in enterococcal clinical isolates in Iran

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 359-368

  Hassan, Maryam ^a,b,c   Diep, Dzung B ^c   Javadzadeh, Yousef ^a,b   Dastmalchi, Siavash ^b   Nes, Ingolf F ^c   Sharifi, Yaeghob ^d   Yari, Saber ^b   Farajnia, Safar ^b   Lotfipour, Farzaneh ^a,e  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Clinical; Enterococci; Genes; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; PROTEINASE K;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS HIRAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; IRAN; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LISTERIA INNOCUA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STRUCTURAL GENE;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIOCINS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IRAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

IRAN;

EID: 84859346497     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: 14803275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W11-136     Document Type: Article

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