Genomic insights to control the emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Howden, Benjamin P ^a,b,c   Holt, Kathryn E ^d   Lam, Margaret M C ^b   Seemann, Torsten ^c   Ballard, Susan ^a   Coombs, Geoffrey W ^e,f   Tong, Steven Y C ^g   Lindsay Grayson, M ^a,b   Johnson, Paul D R ^a,b   Stinear, Timothy P ^b,c  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANAEROBE; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMENSAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSON; TREATMENT FAILURE; VANB GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; VANCOMYCIN SUSCEPTIBLE ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; VANCOMYCIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 84883343175     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00412-13     Document Type: Article

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