Plasmid content of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolate from a patient also colonized by Staphylococcus aureus with a VanA phenotype.
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis coisolated with vancomycin-resistant (VanA) Staphylococcus aureus was found to contain two plasmids, designated pAM830 (45 kb) and pAM831 (95 kb). pAM830, found to be conjugative and closely related to the Inc18 family of broad-host-range conjugative plasmids, encodes resistances to vancomycin (via a Tn1546-like element) and erythromycin; pAM831 encodes resistances to gentamicin, streptomycin, and erythromycin.
Flannagan
Susan E
SE
Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Chow
Joseph W
JW
Donabedian
Susan M
SM
Brown
William J
WJ
Perri
Mary B
MB
Zervos
Marcus J
MJ
Ozawa
Yoshiyuki
Y
Clewell
Don B
DB
D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D019729:Carbon-Oxygen Ligases / Q000235:genetics*; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance / Q000235:genetics; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000235:genetics*; D020713:Vancomycin Resistance / Q000235:genetics*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C071437:VanA ligase, Bacteria; D019729:Carbon-Oxygen Ligases