| Autor: |
Merquior VL; Departamento de Microbiologia, Imunologia e Parasitologia, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. vania.merquior@pq.cnpq.br, Faria AR, Rocha FS, Morais JM, Neves FP, Teixeira LM |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz [Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz] 2012 Jun; Vol. 107 (4), pp. 557-60. |
| DOI: |
10.1590/s0074-02762012000400020 |
| Abstrakt: |
Here we describe the detection and characterisation of three isolates of vancomycin-resistant VanB-type Enterococcus faecalis. Sequence analysis suggested that these isolates harboured the vanB1 gene. The isolates were susceptible to the majority of antimicrobial agents tested, with the exception of chloramphenicol, erythromycin and vancomycin, and showed distinct profiles of high-level resistance to aminoglycosides. Analysis of the clonal relatedness of the vanB E. faecalis isolates showed similar pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles. To our knowledge, this is the first report of the occurrence of enterococcal strains carrying vanB genes in Brazil. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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