Investigation of a multiresistance gene cfr that fails to mediate resistance to phenicols and oxazolidinones in Enterococcus faecalis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 892-898

  Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Wang, Shaolin ^c   Chen, Leran ^a   Wu, Congming ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linezolid; Pigs; RNA methylation; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MESSENGER RNA; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN CFR; RNA 23S; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA METHYLATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

LINEZOLID; PIGS; RNA METHYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSLATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATTLE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THIAMPHENICOL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896447005     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkt459     Document Type: Article

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