Multiple antibiotic resistance gene transfer from animal to human enterococci in the digestive tract of gnotobiotic mice.

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Published in Antimicrob Agents Chemother on September 01, 2003

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C Moubareck1, N Bourgeois, P Courvalin, F Doucet-Populaire

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1: Laboratoire de Microbiologie, UFR de Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques, Université René Descartes, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.

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