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Antibiotic resistance and genotypic characterization by PFGE of clinical and environmental isolates of enterococci.
FEMS microbiology letters - 24 Jul 2001
Dicuonzo G, Gherardi G, Lorino G, Angeletti S, Battistoni F, Bertuccini L, Creti R, Di Rosa R, Venditti M, Baldassarri L
Abstract excerpt
Fifty-four Enterococcus faecalis and 20 Enterococcus faecium isolates from clinical and non-human sources in Rome, Italy, were characterized by antibiotic resistance and pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Resistance to vancomycin, teicoplanin, ampicillin, and ciprofloxacin was more frequent in E. faecium than in E. faecalis, whereas high-level resistance to aminoglycoside was found primarily in E. faecalis....
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