Detection of vanA-containing Enterococcus species in faecal microbiota of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata)

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-511

  Barros, Joana ^a   Andrade, Margarida ^a   Radhouani, Hajer ^a,b   López, Maria ^c   Igrejas, Gilberto ^a   Poeta, Patricia ^a,b   Torres, Carmen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LA RIOJA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Fish; MLST; vanA

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGASE; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENZYMOLOGY; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PORTUGAL; SEA BREAM;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PORTUGAL; SEA BREAM; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; SPARUS AURATA;

EID: 84871115958     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME11346     Document Type: Article

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