| Literature DB >> 23006756 |
Takahiro Nomura1, Koichi Tanimoto, Keigo Shibayama, Yoshichika Arakawa, Shuhei Fujimoto, Yasuyoshi Ike, Haruyoshi Tomita.
Abstract
Five VanN-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains were isolated from a sample of domestic chicken meat in Japan. All isolates showed low-level resistance to vancomycin (MIC, 12 mg/liter) and had the same pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profile. The vancomycin resistance was encoded on a large plasmid (160 kbp) and was expressed constitutively. The VanN-type resistance operon was identical to the first resistance operon to be reported, with the exception of a 1-bp deletion in vanT(N) and a 1-bp substitution in vanS(N).Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 23006756 PMCID: PMC3497174 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00747-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191