In vitro susceptibility studies and detection of vancomycin resistance genes in clinical isolates of enterococci in Nagasaki, Japan

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-181

  Hirakata, Y ^a   Yamaguchi, T ^a   Izumikawa, K ^a   Matsuda, J ^a   Tomono, K ^a   Kaku, M ^b   Koga, H ^a   Yamada, Y ^a   Kohno, S ^a   Kamihira, S ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; MINOCYCLINE; STREPTOGRAMIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; JAPAN; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URBAN HEALTH; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 9844248540     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268897007954     Document Type: Article

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