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SUBMITTER: McGregor KF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC90067 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20000901 9
Thirty-two vanB glycopeptide-resistant enterococci (28 Enterococcus faecium and 4 Enterococcus faecalis) were collected from hospitalized patients in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, and Aberdeen, Scotland, and the vanB element in each was compared to vanB1 of E. faecalis strain ATCC 51299. HhaI digestion of PCR fragments of the vanB ligase gene was used to identify vanB subtypes. All E. faecium isolates were vanB2, and all E. faecalis isolates were vanB1. Restriction fragment length polymorphism ana ...[more]