Environmental dissemination of vanA-containing Enterococcus faecium strains belonging to hospital-associated clonal lineages

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2016 Jan;71(1):264-6. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkv320. Epub 2015 Oct 12.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics*
  • Brazil
  • Carbon-Oxygen Ligases / genetics*
  • Enterococcus faecium / classification*
  • Enterococcus faecium / genetics
  • Enterococcus faecium / isolation & purification*
  • Genotype*
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Molecular Typing
  • Rivers / microbiology*
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / classification*
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / genetics
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Bacterial Proteins
  • VanA ligase, Bacteria
  • Carbon-Oxygen Ligases