High level aminoglycoside resistance and distribution of aminoglycoside resistant genes among clinical isolates of Enterococcus species in Chennai, India

The Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Padmasini, Elango ^a   Padmaraj, R ^b   Ramesh, S Srivani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; DIBEKACIN; GENTAMICIN; KANAMYCIN; NETILMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TAQ POLYMERASE; TOBRAMYCIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS AVIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; GENETIC RESISTANCE; INDIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENES, BACTERIAL; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 84896344100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/329157     Document Type: Article

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