Microevolutionary Events Involving Narrow Host Plasmids Influences Local Fixation of Vancomycin-Resistance in Enterococcus Populations

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Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Freitas, Ana R ^a,b   Novais, Carla ^a   Tedim, Ana P ^b,c,d   Francia, María Victoria ^e   Baquero, Fernando ^b,c,d   Peixe, Luísa ^a   Coque, Teresa M ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO RAMÓN Y CAJAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SANITARIA IRYCIS   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSAICISM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PORTUGAL; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 84875538138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060589     Document Type: Article

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