American crows as carriers of vancomycin-resistant enterococci with vanA gene

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 939-949

  Oravcova, Veronika ^a   Zurek, Ludek ^b   Townsend, Andrea ^c   Clark, Anne B ^d   Ellis, Julie C ^e   Cizek, Alois ^a   Literak, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDAE; CORVUS BRACHYRHYNCHOS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGASE; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CROW; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CROWS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84898057161     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12213     Document Type: Article

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