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Indication of transposition of a mobile DNA element containing the vat(D) and erm(B) genes in Enterococcus faecium
A M Hammerum1, S E Flannagan, D B Clewell
1Danish Veterinary Laboratory, Bülowsvej 27, DK-1790 Copenhagen V, Denmark. ama@ssi.dk
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|October 16, 2001
Abstract:
The vat(D) and erm(B) genes encoding streptogramin resistance in Enterococcus faecium transferred together, and a direct physical link between erm(B) and vat(D) was detected. Both the vat(D) and erm(B) probes hybridized to fragments of different sizes in the donor and transconjugants, which indicated a transposition event.