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Title
Novel vancomycin resistance gene cluster in Enterococcus faecium ST1486, Belgium, June 2021
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Abstract
We identified a novel van gene cluster in a clinical Enterococcus faecium isolate with vancomycin minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of 4 pg/ mL. The ligase gene, vanP, was part of a van operon cluster of 4,589 bp on a putative novel integrative conjugative element located in a ca 98 kb genomic region presumed to be acquired by horizontal gene transfer from Clostridiumscidens and Roseburia sp. 499. Screening for van genes in E. faecium strains with borderline susceptibility to vancomycin is important.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Eurosurveillance : European communicable disease bulletin / European Communities. Commission; Communautés européennes. Commission. - Saint-Maurice, 1995, currens
Publication
Saint-Maurice : 2021
ISSN
1025-496X [print]
1560-7917 [online]
DOI
10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.36.2100767
Volume/pages
26 :36 (2021) , 6 p.
Article Reference
2100767
ISI
000697494900002
Pubmed ID
34505571
Medium
E-only publicatie
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