Woodford N, Chadwick P R, Morrison D, Cookson B D
Laboratory of Hospital Infection, Central Public Health Laboratory, London, United Kingdom.
J Clin Microbiol. 1997 Nov;35(11):2966-8. doi: 10.1128/jcm.35.11.2966-2968.1997.
Two isolates of Enterococcus faecium with VanA glycopeptide resistance were isolated during a hospital outbreak of E. faecium with plasmid-mediated VanB resistance. Both were found to be identical to the VanB outbreak strain by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The genotype of this strain changed from vanB to vanA through an intermediate isolate that contained both the vanA and vanB gene clusters on distinct plasmids.
在医院爆发的由质粒介导的VanB耐药性屎肠球菌疫情期间,分离出了两株具有VanA糖肽耐药性的屎肠球菌。通过脉冲场凝胶电泳发现,这两株菌与VanB爆发菌株完全相同。该菌株的基因型通过一个中间分离株从vanB转变为vanA,该中间分离株在不同的质粒上同时含有vanA和vanB基因簇。