Association between the vanB2 glycopeptide resistance operon and Tn1549 in enterococci from France

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1 August 2002

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Vol. 50 (2) , 253-256
https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkf105

Abstract

Linkage between the vanB2 gene cluster and transposon Tn1549 was found in clonally unrelated VanB-type vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. strains isolated in France. The transposon was chromosomally located or plasmid borne.

Keywords

PLASMID
GLYCOPEPTIDE
VANCOMYCIN
SPP
ENTEROCOCCUS
CHROMOSOMALLY
UNRELATED
VANB2
CLONALLY