Vancomycin resistance is encoded on a pheromone response plasmid in Enterococcus faecium 228
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
- Vol. 34 (2) , 358-360
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aac.34.2.358
Abstract
In Enterococcus faecium 228, vancomycin resistance is encoded on a 55-kilobase conjugative plasmid, pHKK100. This plasmid was transferred with high frequency into susceptible strains of Enterococcus faecalis and conferred responses to pheromones produced by E. faecalis and Streptococcus sanguis. pHKK100 is the first plasmid described that mediates both vancomycin resistance and pheromone response.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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