Environmental strains of Enterococcus faecium with inducible high-level resistance to glycopeptides
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- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Vol. 106 (1) , 23-29
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1097(93)90051-3
Abstract
High-level resistance to glycopeptides in Enterococcus faecium is associated with an inducible 39-kDa cytoplasmic membrane protein. The present paper shows that such glycopeptide-resistant E. faecium strains can not only be isolated in a definite clinical setting but also from waste water of sewage treatment plants. Nearer characterization of these and of clinical isolates by resistance pattern, biotyping, and genotyping (DNA-fingerprinting with pulsed-field get electrophoresis) has shown that different glycopeptide-resistant E. faecium strains have been isolated from clinical sources and from waste water.Keywords
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