First report of multiresistance gene cfr in Enterococcus species casseliflavus and gallinarum of swine origin

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 170, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 352-357

  Liu, Yang ^a   Wang, Yang ^a   Dai, Lei ^b   Wu, Congming ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food safety; Intro genus transfer; Linezolid resistance

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; NUCLEASE S1; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSPOSASE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CFR GENE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; GENE LOCATION; INVERSE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; SUIDAE;

FOOD SAFETY; INTRO-GENUS TRANSFER; LINEZOLID RESISTANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ENTEROCOCCUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWINE;

EID: 84898454340     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: 18732542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2014.02.037     Document Type: Article

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