LINKAGE OF VANCOMYCIN AND HIGH-LEVEL GENTAMICIN RESISTANCE GENES ON THE SAME PLASMID IN A CLINICAL ISOLATE OF ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECALIS

Authors
WOODFORD N JONES BL BACCUS Z LUDLAM HA BROWN DFJ
Citation
N. Woodford et al., LINKAGE OF VANCOMYCIN AND HIGH-LEVEL GENTAMICIN RESISTANCE GENES ON THE SAME PLASMID IN A CLINICAL ISOLATE OF ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECALIS, Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 35(1), 1995, pp. 179-184
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Journal title
Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
03057453
Volume
35
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
179 - 184
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-7453(1995)35:1<179:LOVAHG>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A transferable 55-MDa plasmid which encoded resistance to both vancomy cin and high concentrations of gentamicin was identified in a clinical isolate of Enterococcus faecalis. The plasmid hybridized with probes for the vanB and aac6' aph2'' resistance genes. This is the first repo rt of linkage of glycopeptide and high-level aminoglycoside resistance genes in an Enterococcus sp.