Nonclinical and clinical enterococcus faecium strains, but not enterococcus faecalis strains, have distinct structural and functional genomic features

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 154-165

  Kim, Eun Bae ^a,b   Marco, Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; E. FAECIUM STRAIN; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM STRAINS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION;

BACILLI; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

GENES;

ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CLADISTICS; FOOD PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; VIRULENCE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SYNTENY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; SYNTENY;

EID: 84891103103     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03108-13     Document Type: Article

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