The majority of a collection of U.S. endocarditis Enterococcus faecalis isolates obtained from 1974 to 2004 lack capsular genes and belong to diverse, non-hospital-associated lineages

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 549-556

  Chowdhury, Shahreen A ^a   Nallapareddy, Sreedhar R ^a   Arias, Cesar A ^a,b   Murray, Barbara E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; STREPTOMYCIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893053056     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02763-13     Document Type: Article

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