Genomic relationships between Enterococcus faecium strains from different sources and with different antibiotic resistance profiles evaluated by restriction endonuclease analysis of total chromosomal DNA using EcoRI and PvuII

Forty-seven Enterococcus faecium strains from different sources were evaluated by restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) of total chromosomal DNA. Strains from chicken, pork, and humans were clearly divided into separate clusters, whereas strains from different countries, strains with different ant...

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Published inApplied and environmental microbiology Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 1777 - 1780
Main Authors QUEDNAU, M, AHRNE, S, MOLIN, G
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.04.1999
Subjects
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology
Antibiotic resistance
Antibiotics
Bacteria
Bacteriological methods and techniques used in bacteriology
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI - metabolism
Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific - metabolism
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Drug resistance
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Enterococcus faecium
Enterococcus faecium - classification
Enterococcus faecium - drug effects
Enterococcus faecium - genetics
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Genomics
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - microbiology
Humans
Methods
Microbiology
Phylogeny
Restriction Mapping
Resistance
Streptococcaceae
Enterococcus faecium
Antibiotic
Enzyme
Pathogenic
Restriction endonuclease
Bacteria
Micrococcales
Phylogeny
Genome
Comparative study
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Summary:Forty-seven Enterococcus faecium strains from different sources were evaluated by restriction endonuclease analysis (REA) of total chromosomal DNA. Strains from chicken, pork, and humans were clearly divided into separate clusters, whereas strains from different countries, strains with different antibiotic resistance profiles, or clinical and healthy-subject strains were not.
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Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Food Technology, Chemical Center, P.O. Box 124, S-220 00 Lund, Sweden. Phone: 46 46 222 83 27. Fax: 46 46 222 95 17. E-mail: siv.ahrne@livsteki.lth.se.
ISSN:0099-2240
1098-5336
DOI:10.1128/aem.65.4.1777-1780.1999