VanB-vanA incongruent VRE isolated from animals and humans in 1999.
16 chicken isolates and four clinical isolates of VanB-vanA incongruent vancomycinresistant Enterococcus faecium strains without vanS were isolated in 1999. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed only a peripheral relationship between the chicken isolates and clinical isolates, but suggested clonal spread in the chicken isolates.
Shin
Enjoo
E
Department of Biology, Culture Collection of Antimicrobial Resistant Microbes, Seoul Women's University, Seoul 139-774, Republic of Korea.
Hong
Hyunjin
H
Hong
Hyun-Gin
HG
Ike
Yasuyoshi
Y
Lee
Kyungwon
K
Park
Yong Ho
YH
Cho
Dong Taek
DT
Lee
Dong Taek
DT
Lee
Yeonhee
Y
D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D019729:Carbon-Oxygen Ligases / Q000235:genetics; D002645:Chickens / Q000382:microbiology*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D016984:Enterococcus faecium / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000494:pharmacology*
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C071437:VanA ligase, Bacteria; C079913:VanB protein, Enterococcus; C073901:VanS protein, Enterococcus; D014640:Vancomycin; D011494:Protein Kinases; D019729:Carbon-Oxygen Ligases