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Dec1-03, 06:33 PM
Staphylococcus-acquired vancomycin resistance from enterococcal co-isolate | By Cathy Holding
In June 2002, a strain of Staphylococcus aureus, resistant to the last remaining antibiotic against the methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), was isolated from a dialysis patient in Michigan. The vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strain was the subject of genetic analysis by Linda Weigel and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and their conclusions are reported in the November 28 Science. The drug resistant strain harbored a 57.9 kb multiresistance, conjugative plasmid with vancomycin resistance encoded in an integrated mobile genetic element, Tn1546, first reported in an isolate of Enterococcus faecium, and here identified in a co-isolate of Enterococcus faecalis (Science, 302:1569-1571, November 28, 2003).
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031128/03
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In June 2002, a strain of Staphylococcus aureus, resistant to the last remaining antibiotic against the methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), was isolated from a dialysis patient in Michigan. The vancomycin-resistant S. aureus (VRSA) strain was the subject of genetic analysis by Linda Weigel and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and their conclusions are reported in the November 28 Science. The drug resistant strain harbored a 57.9 kb multiresistance, conjugative plasmid with vancomycin resistance encoded in an integrated mobile genetic element, Tn1546, first reported in an isolate of Enterococcus faecium, and here identified in a co-isolate of Enterococcus faecalis (Science, 302:1569-1571, November 28, 2003).
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031128/03
What a good new[!:)] !!!