Vancomycin-resistant enterococci in rooks (Corvus frugilegus) wintering throughout Europe

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 548-556

  Oravcova, Veronika ^a   Ghosh, Anuradha ^b   Zurek, Ludek ^b   Bardon, Jan ^c,d   Guenther, Sebastian ^e   Cizek, Alois ^a   Literak, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c State Veterinary Institute   (Czech Republic)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROW; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; EUROPE; FECES; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROWS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; EUROPE; FECES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

CORVUS FRUGILEGUS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM;

EID: 84873251636     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12002     Document Type: Article

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