Open AccessDetection of vancomycin resistance in enterococcus species isolated from clinical samples and feces of colonized patients by phenotypic and genotypic methods
Author(s) -
Prabir Kumar Biswas,
Sangeeta Dey,
Luna Adhikari,
Aninda Sen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.217
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.182015
Subject(s) - vancomycin , microbiology and biotechnology , agar dilution , enterococcus faecalis , feces , enterococcus faecium , biology , enterococcus , genotype , multiplex polymerase chain reaction , minimum inhibitory concentration , antibiotics , polymerase chain reaction , agar , gene , bacteria , escherichia coli , staphylococcus aureus , genetics
The aim of this study was to find out the clinical correlation between the presence of vancomycin-resistant genes (van A and van B) and their expression as detected by phenotypic tests in colonized patients and in clinical isolates.