vanA-containing Enterococcus faecium susceptible to vancomycin and teicoplanin because of major nucleotide deletions in Tn1546

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2758-2762

  Gagnon, Simon ^a   Lévesque, Simon ^b   Lefebvre, Brigitte ^b   Bourgault, Anne Marie ^b,c   Labbé, Annie Claude ^c,d   Roger, Michel ^a,c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d MAISONNEUVE ROSEMONT HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene cassettes; Genotyping; Plasmids; Resistance genes; VRE

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN VANA; PROTEIN VANS; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE ORDER; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 81855190675     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr379     Document Type: Article

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