Vancomycin-resistant gram-positive cocci isolated from the saliva of wild songbirds

Current Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 337-343

  Ishihara, Shingo ^a   Bitner, Jessica J ^a   Farley, Greg H ^a   Gillock, Eric T ^a  

^a FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAGULASE; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; DNA ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE FUNCTION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SUCCINUS; UNITED STATES; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANC GENE; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; KANSAS; SALIVA; SONGBIRDS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS SUCCINUS; TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 84878408488     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-012-0278-1     Document Type: Article

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