Detection in Greece of a clinical Enterococcus faecium isolate carrying the novel oxazolidinone resistance gene poxtA

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 Aug 1;74(8):2461-2462. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkz155.

Authors

Costas C Papagiannitsis¹, Katerina Tsilipounidaki¹, Ergina Malli¹, Efi Petinaki¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece.

PMID: 31009054
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkz155

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Enterococcus faecium / classification
Enterococcus faecium / drug effects*
Enterococcus faecium / genetics
Enterococcus faecium / isolation & purification*
Genes, Bacterial*
Genotype
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
Greece
Humans
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Oxazolidinones / pharmacology*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Oxazolidinones