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Geographic Distribution of a Large Mobile Element That Transfers Ampicillin and Vancomycin Resistance between Enterococcus faecium Strains

In several clonally unrelated VanB-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains, we demonstrated a common physical relationship between pbp5 and Tn5382 as well as common mutations within pbp5. The majority of these strains transferred vancomycin and ampicillin resistance to E. faecium in v...

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Main Authors: Hanrahan, Jennifer, Hoyen, Claudia, Rice, Louis B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC89868/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10770775
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