Novel vancomycin-resistance transposon, plasmid replicon types, and virulence factors of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in Zhejiang, China

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-188

  Qu, Ting Ting ^a   Yang, Qing ^a   Shen, Ping ^a   Wei, Ze Qing ^a   Yu, Yun Song ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; GENE INSERTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FOSFOMYCIN; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 84859620890     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: 19318448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.2011.0140     Document Type: Article

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