Glycopeptide-resistance transferability from vancomycin-resistant enterococci of human and animal source to Listeria spp.

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 483-489

  De Niederhausern S ^a   Sabia, C ^a   Messi, P ^a   Guerrieri, E ^a   Manicardi, G ^a   Bondi, Moreno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Conjugation; Enterococcus; Listeria spp.; Plasmid; VanA

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; PEPTIDES;

CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GLYCOPEPTIDES; LISTERIA SPP.; MATINGS; MEMBRANE FILTERS; PLASMID; TRANSCONJUGANTS; VANA; VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI;

ANIMALS;

GLYCOPEPTIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PLASMID; TOLERANCE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; LISTERIA; MATING; NONHUMAN; RECIPIENT; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSPOSON; VANA GENE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; LISTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 9644262563     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2004.01598.x     Document Type: Article

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