Intensive care unit dissemination of multiple clones of linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1819-1823

  Ntokou, Eleni ^a   Stathopoulos, Constantinos ^b   Kristo, Ioulia ^a   Dimitroulia, Evangelia ^c   Labrou, Maria ^a   Vasdeki, Afroditi ^a   Makris, Demosthenes ^d   Zakynthinos, Epameinondas ^d   Tsakris, Athanassios ^c   Pournaras, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

23S rDNA mutations; Enterococci; Heterogeneous mutations; Linezolid exposure; PFGE

Indexed keywords

LINEZOLID; RIBOSOME RNA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; CROSS RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GREECE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; OXAZOLIDINONES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84864508970     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks146     Document Type: Article

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