Enterococcal multiresistance gene cluster in methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus from various origins and geographical locations

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2573-2575

  Wendlandt, Sarah ^a   Li, Jun ^b   Ho, Jeff ^c   Porta, Marc Armengol ^d   Feßler, Andrea T ^a   Wang, Yang ^b   Kadlec, Kristina ^a   Monecke, Stefan ^e,f   Ehricht, Ralf ^e   Boost, Maureen ^c   Schwarz, Stefan ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

^e Alere Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; MRSA; Resistance gene transfer

Indexed keywords

DALFOPRISTIN; LINCOSAMIDE; SPECTINOMYCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ELECTROTRANSFORMATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLEUROMUTILIN RESISTANT METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SPECTINOMYCIN RESISTANT METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84905975351     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku137     Document Type: Letter

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