Genomic transition of enterococci from gut commensals to leading causes of multidrug-resistant hospital infection in the antibiotic era

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 10-16

  Gilmore, Michael S ^a   Lebreton, Francois ^a   van Schaik, Willem ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; INTEGRASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; COMMENSAL; DENTAL CARIES; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT HOSPITAL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84875808358     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2013.01.006     Document Type: Review

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