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Occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistances in Enterococcus faecium.
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Enterococci are the second to third most important bacterial genus in hospital infections and their transferable resistance genes are of special interest from medical point of view and across the food chain (by GREF-contaminated meat products), these multiple-resistant bacteria or their vanA gene clusters can reach humans.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Food Microbiology.The article was published on 2003-12-01. It has received 248 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enterococcus faecium & Streptogramin.read more
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The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus.
Katie Fisher,Carol A Phillips +1 more
TL;DR: Understanding the ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus species is important for limiting urinary tract infections, hepatobiliary sepsis, endocarditis, surgical wound infection, bacteraemia and neonatal sepsi, and also stemming the further development of antibiotic resistance.
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Acquired Antibiotic Resistance Genes: An Overview
Angela H.A.M. van Hoek,Dik Mevius,Dik Mevius,Beatriz Guerra,Peter Mullany,Adam P. Roberts,Henk Aarts +6 more
TL;DR: Attention is paid to mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, transposons, and integrons, which are associated with AR genes, and involved in the dispersal of antimicrobial determinants between different bacteria.
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Safety assessment of dairy microorganisms: the Enterococcus genus.
Jean-Claude Ogier,Pascale Serror +1 more
TL;DR: According to food safety assessment guidelines, a case-by-case evaluation of each potential technological strain is proposed and several lines of research are suggested before using enterococci in fermented food products.
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The variable number of tandem repeats element in DAT1 regulates in vitro dopamine transporter density.
TL;DR: This study identified the DAT1 VNTR as a functional polymorphism and provides an interpretive framework for its association with behavioral phenotypes.
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Mechanisms of action of newer antibiotics for Gram-positive pathogens.
TL;DR: Certain Gram-positive bacteria, including meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and quinolone-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae have achieved the status of "superbugs", in that there are few or no antibiotics available for therapy against them.
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