TRANSFERABLE, PLASMID-MEDIATED VANB-TYPE GLYCOPEPTIDE RESISTANCE IN ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECIUM

Authors
RICE LB CARIAS LL DONSKEY CL RUDIN SD
Citation
Lb. Rice et al., TRANSFERABLE, PLASMID-MEDIATED VANB-TYPE GLYCOPEPTIDE RESISTANCE IN ENTEROCOCCUS-FAECIUM, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 42(4), 1998, pp. 963-964
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Pharmacology & Pharmacy",Microbiology
Journal title
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy → ACNP
ISSN journal
00664804
Volume
42
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
963 - 964
Database
ISI
SICI code
0066-4804(1998)42:4<963:TPVGRI>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
An approximately 60-kb transferable, vanB-carrying plasmid has been id entified in a clinical Enterococcus faecium strain. A similar plasmid has been observed in an unrelated E. faecium strain, suggesting that p lasmid transfer of vanB operons occurs in nature and plays a role in t he dissemination of VanB-type resistance among strains of E. faecium.