vanA gene
Outbreak of Vancomycin Susceptible Enterococcus faecium Containing the Wild Type vanA Gene
... of vanA to the data available in NCBI’s GenBank demonstrated significant homology (99 to 100%) to vanA isolated from different strains of ...vanH, vanA, vanX, vanY, and vanZ ...vanH, vanA, ...
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Prevalance of vanA Gene in Vancomycine Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (VRSA) Isolated from Chicken and Turkey Meat in Tehran, Iran
... 1. Mohsenzade M, Nasiri M, Kolalian Moghadam M. Detection of mecA gene in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from meat and hamburgers supplied in Mashhad. 7 th National Congress of Biotechnology. ...
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Molecular detection of <em>vanA</em> and <em>vanB</em> genes among vancomycin-resistant enterococci in ICU-hospitalized patients in Ahvaz in southwest of Iran
... The vanA and vanB genes were amplified in all the resistant or semi-susceptible isolates to vancomycin and teicoplanin by the multiplex PCR ...contained vanA gene, and 5 (8.5%) isolates were without ...
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Detection of vancomycin resistant enterococci in fecal samples by PCR
... to vanA, vanB, vanC1, vanC2, and enterococcal ligase genes were used to detect and identify VRE in fecal material obtained by rectal or perirectal ...for vanA. However, after retesting the negative samples ...
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Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility of enterococci in Cincinnati, Ohio: a prospective citywide survey
... expected vanA gene product of 1,029 bp; lane 7, phenotypically VanA study isolate that failed to produce vanA gene ...vanB gene product of 457 ...phenotypically VanA but ...
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REVIEW ARTICLE Vancomycin resistant Enterococci: A brief review
... The VanA gene is not responsible for conferring resistance alone but there are other genes which regulate and express the resistance. These genes are: VanR, VanS, VanH, VanX, VanY and VanZ all of which are ...
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“Vancoplus Kinetic Study in Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus” by Manu Chaudhary, Anurag Payasi, India.
... of VanA genes in presence of ...and VanA gene expression which forced to believe that this failure of bacterium to express these genes didn’t enable it to grow normally in presence of Vancoplus which ...
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Molecular Characterization of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates from Mainland China
... of VanA-type vancomycin resistance genes encoded on Tn1546-like ...encoding VanA-type vancomycin resistance are plasmid borne (4), all of the isolates in this study were examined for plasmid content and ...
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Characterization of an Enterococcus gallinarum Isolate Carrying a Dual vanA and vanB Cassette
... as vanA or vanB. In addition, the presence of the vanA or vanB gene in motile enterococci may contribute to the spread of vancomycin resistance among other enterococcal ...the vanA gene ...
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Performance Characteristics of the Cepheid Xpert vanA Assay for Rapid Identification of Patients at High Risk for Carriage of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci
... Xpert vanA was determined to be positive for the vanB gene by a vancomycin- teicoplanin Etest and a vanB PCR ...Xpert vanA/vanB assay, Marner and colleagues also detected a low number (5/88) of ...
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Comparison of the Roche LightCycler vanA/vanB Detection Assay and Culture for Detection of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci from Perianal Swabs
... detect vanA, vanB, vanC-1, and vanC-2 ...the vanA assay were 88.5 and 99.6%, respectively. The vanA gene was detected in one sam- ple from which no enterococci were ...PCR vanA and vanB ...
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High Prevalence of VanB2 Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium in Taiwan
... the vanA ligase gene (13, 14, 28). The sequences of the vanA ligase genes in different VRE isolates appeared to be ...the vanA gene clusters are structurally different (13, 14, ...28). ...
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vanA and vanB Incorporate into an Endemic Ampicillin Resistant Vancomycin SensitiveEnterococcus faecium Strain: Effect on Interpretation of Clonality
... with vanA and vanB ...The vanA and vanB probes consisted of 732- and 635-bp intragenic fragments of the vanA and vanB genes, respectively (6); both of them were labeled with digoxigenin (Boehringer, ...
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The Antibiotic Susceptibility Pattern and Prevalence of vanA, vanB, and vanC Genes among Enterococcus faecalis Strains Isolated from Consumed Meat
... Background: Enterococci play an important role in the spread of drug resistant genes and thus resistant strains. The dissemination of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) strains is one of the crucial issues in ...
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Multiplex PCR detection of vanA, vanB, vanC 1, and vanC 2/3 genes in enterococci
... the vanA and vanC-1 ...vanC-1 gene in two enterococcal strains, which by pheno- typic analysis appeared to be ...vanC-1 gene in these isolates using previously described vanC-1 gene primers ...
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Emergence and dissemination of a highly vancomycin resistant vanA strain of Enterococcus faecium at a large teaching hospital
... clonal dissemination of a single E. faecium vanB strain was identified at five hospitals in the San Antonio, Tex., area dur- ing 1993 and 1994, cross-transmission of E. faecium vanA was limited (17). In addition, ...
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Spectrophotometric determination of selenium in industrial and environmental samples using vanillin-2-aminonicotinic acid (VANA)
... The present method Vanillin-2-aminonicotinicacid (VANA) was applied for the determination of selenium when present alone and present in water and soil samples. The present ligands containing aromatic ring are ...
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Rapid Detection of Antimicrobial Resistant Organism Carriage: an Unmet Clinical Need
... A real-time PCR assay for rapid detection of MRSA directly from nares swab specimens is now commercially available (IDI-MRSA; Infectio Diagnostic, Quebec City, Quebec, Can- ada). This assay, performed on the SmartCycler ...
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Evaluation of the Xpert vanA/vanB Assay Using Enriched Inoculated Broths for Direct Detection of vanB Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci
... The use of enriched broths containing amoxicillin still enables ARE to grow, whereas the growth of amoxicillin-sensitive bacte- ria, including anaerobes, like Clostridium species, is inhibited. These species are the most ...
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Rapid characterization schemes for surveillance isolates of vancomycin resistant enterococci
... for vanA and vanB, preparation of reaction mixtures and conditions, and detection of amplicons by gel electrophoresis were done as previously described (6, ...rRNA gene were included in each reaction ...
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