Pitfalls in the identification of Enterococcus species and the detection of vanA and vanB genes

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 189-195

  Papadimitriou Olivgeris, M ^a,d   Filippidou, S ^a,e   Kolonitsiou, F ^a   Drougka, E ^a   Koutsileou, K ^a   Fligou, F ^a   Dodou, V ^b   Sarrou, S ^c   Marangos, M ^a   Vantarakis, A ^a   Anastassiou, E D ^a   Petinaki, E ^c   Spiliopoulou, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d Hôpital du Jura   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

enterococci; GeneXpert ; identification; vancomycin resistant enterococci; Vitek 2

Indexed keywords

BACILLI; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES;

BANDING PATTERNS; CRITICALLY-ILL PATIENTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE DETECTION; GENEXPERT®; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; IDENTIFICATION; PERFORMANCE; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI; VITEK 2;

EXPERT SYSTEMS;

DNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; COLONIZATION; DETECTION METHOD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS VILLORUM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYZER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS CASSELIFLAVUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS GALLINARUM; ENTEROCOCCUS VILLORUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84981537747     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lam.12610     Document Type: Article

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