Genetic environment of the transferable oxazolidinone/phenicol resistance gene optrA in Enterococcus faecalis isolates of human and animal origin

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1466-1473

  He, Tao ^a,b   Shen, Yingbo ^a   Schwarz, Stefan ^a,c   Cai, Jiachang ^d   Lv, Yuan ^e   Li, Jun ^a,c   Feßler, Andrea T ^c   Zhang, Rong ^d   Wu, Congming ^a   Shen, Jianzhong ^a   Wang, Yang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLORFENICOL; GENTAMICIN; LINCOSAMIDE; LINEZOLID; MIKAMYCIN B; TEDIZOLID; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; THIAMPHENICOL; TRANSPOSON;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEXA GENE; HUMAN; HYBRID; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTRA GENE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; RADC GENE; REGULATOR GENE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PIG; TRANSPOSON; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHICKENS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; THIAMPHENICOL;

EID: 84973301150     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw016     Document Type: Article

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