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First nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium expressing a VanD-like phenotype associated with a vanA genotype.


ABSTRACT: Although enterococci expressing acquired vancomycin resistance phenotype have been reported increasingly worldwide, they have been rarely reported in France. From August to December 2004 we faced an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) isolates in the nephrology department at Bicêtre Hospital (K.-Bicêtre, France). The expression of the glycopeptide resistance varied among the 26 VRE isolates, with vancomycin MICs ranging from 12 to >256 microg/ml, whereas teicoplanin MICs ranged from 4 to 48 microg/ml. However, several strains appeared to be susceptible to glycopeptides according to disk diffusion testing and expressed resistance only after subculture with glycopeptides. In addition, a heterogeneous expression of glycopeptide resistance was also observed. This so-called VanD-like phenotype of resistance (low-level resistance to vancomycin and mostly susceptibility to teicoplanin) was surprisingly associated with a vanA gene. Plasmid extraction and mating-out experiments indicated that the vanA gene was located on a 200-kb self-transferable plasmid. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis identified mostly dissemination of a single clone, whereas diffusion of the VanA-positive plasmid in different genomic backgrounds had also occurred. The vanA gene was part of a vanA-type operon for expression of resistance located on a Tn1546-like transposon. Sequencing of this transposon identified insertion of insertion sequence IS16 in the vanY gene that encodes a d,d-carboxypeptidase that might explain in part the peculiar VanD-type phenotype of resistance. This report is the first description of a VRE outbreak in France and underlines the difficulty in detecting this organism due to variability on the expression of the glycopeptide resistance trait, if any.

SUBMITTER: Naas T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1233916 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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First nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium expressing a VanD-like phenotype associated with a vanA genotype.

Naas Thierry T   Fortineau Nicolas N   Snanoudj Renaud R   Spicq Colette C   Durrbach Antoine A   Nordmann Patrice P  

Journal of clinical microbiology 20050801 8


Although enterococci expressing acquired vancomycin resistance phenotype have been reported increasingly worldwide, they have been rarely reported in France. From August to December 2004 we faced an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) isolates in the nephrology department at Bicêtre Hospital (K.-Bicêtre, France). The expression of the glycopeptide resistance varied among the 26 VRE isolates, with vancomycin MICs ranging from 12 to >256 microg/ml, whereas teicoplanin MICs  ...[more]

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