Rice L B, Carias L L, Donskey C L, Rudin S D
Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Ohio 44106, USA.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1998 Apr;42(4):963-4. doi: 10.1128/AAC.42.4.963.
An approximately 60-kb transferable, vanB-carrying plasmid has been identified in a clinical Enterococcus faecium strain. A similar plasmid has been observed in an unrelated E. faecium strain, suggesting that plasmid transfer of vanB operons occurs in nature and plays a role in the dissemination of VanB-type resistance among strains of E. faecium.
在一株临床分离的粪肠球菌中鉴定出了一个约60 kb的可转移、携带vanB的质粒。在一株不相关的粪肠球菌中也观察到了类似的质粒,这表明vanB操纵子的质粒转移在自然界中发生,并在粪肠球菌菌株间VanB型耐药性的传播中起作用。