The marine environment as a reservoir of enterococci carrying resistance and virulence genes strongly associated with clinical strains

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 184-190

  Di Cesare, Andrea ^a   Pasquaroli, Sonia ^a   Vignaroli, Carla ^a   Paroncini, Paolo ^a   Luna, Gian Marco ^b   Manso, Esther ^c   Biavasco, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Biochemicaland Microbiology Laboratory   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SEA WATER; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEAWATER; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84897647889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12125     Document Type: Article

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