Molecular analysis of VanA outbreak of Enterococcus faecium in two Warsaw hospitals: The importance of mobile genetic elements

BioMed Research International

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wardal, Ewa ^a   Markowska, Katarzyna ^a   Zabicka, Dorota ^a   Wróblewska, Marta ^b   Giemza, Małgorzata ^b   Mik, Ewa ^b   Połowniak Pracka, Hanna ^c   Woźniak, Agnieszka ^c   Hryniewicz, Waleria ^a   Sadowy, Ewa ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND TRANSFUSION MEDICINE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; INTEGRASE; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGASE; TRANSPOSON; VANA LIGASE, BACTERIA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPOSON; VANA GENE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLAND; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLAND; VANCOMYCIN; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84903648276     PISSN: 23146133     EISSN: 23146141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/575367     Document Type: Article

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