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VanB-vanA Incongruent VRE Isolated from Animals and Humans in 1999

  • Shin En-Joo (Culture Collection of Antimicrobial Resistant Microbes, Department of Biology, Seoul Women's University) ;
  • Hong Hyun-Gin (Culture Collection of Antimicrobial Resistant Microbes, Department of Biology, Seoul Women's University) ;
  • Ike Yasuyoshi (Department of Bacteriology and Bacterial Infection Control, Laboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma University) ;
  • Lee Kyung-Won (Department of Clinical Laboratory, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University) ;
  • Park Yong-Ho (Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee Dong-Taek (Laboratory of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Lee Yeon-Hee (Culture Collection of Antimicrobial Resistant Microbes, Department of Biology, Seoul Women's University)
  • Published : 2006.08.01
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Abstract

16 chicken isolates and four clinical isolates of VanB-vanA incongruent vancomycinresistant Enterococcus faecium strains without vanS were isolated in 1999. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed only a peripheral relationship between the chicken isolates and clinical isolates, but suggested clonal spread in the chicken isolates.

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