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Plasmid content of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolate from a patient also colonized by
Susan E Flannagan1, Joseph W Chow, Susan M Donabedian
1Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
|November 26, 2003
Abstract:
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.