Publication Date:
2012-11-13
Description:
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 .
Print ISSN:
0066-4804
Electronic ISSN:
1098-6596
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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