A multicentre hospital outbreak in sweden caused by introduction of a vanB2 transposon into a stably maintained pRUM-plasmid in an Enterococcus faecium ST192 clone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Sivertsen, Audun ^a   Billström, Hanna ^b   Melefors, Öjar ^b   Liljequist, Barbro Olsson ^b   Wisell, Karin Tegmark ^b   Ullberg, Måns ^c   Özenci, Volkan ^c   Sundsfjord, Arnfinn ^a,d   Hegstad, Kristin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; NUCLEASE S1; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VANB PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SWEDEN; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN SUSCEPTIBLE ENTEROCOCCUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84929479074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103274     Document Type: Article

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