vanB gene
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Strain Carrying the vanB2 Gene Variant in a Polish Hospital
... the VanB phenotype (8, 21, 22) in ...vanB2 gene cluster variant, which resided within a transferable DNA ...the vanB locus. The VanB phenotype was originally reported by Sahm et ...with ...
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Multiplex PCR detection of vanA, vanB, vanC 1, and vanC 2/3 genes in enterococci
... vanA, vanB, vanC-1, and vanC-2/3 genes by a single multiplex PCR performed directly with colonies from blood agar ...vanA, vanB, vanC-1, or vanC-2 genes were used as ...strains, vanB for 30 strains, ...
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Amplified fragment length polymorphism and whole genome sequencing: a comparison of methods in the investigation of a nosocomial outbreak with vancomycin resistant enterococci
... the vanB gene ...the vanB gene cluster ...The vanB gene clusters of the outbreak isolates have only 8 SNPs difference with the vanB gene cluster of non-outbreak ...
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Selection of a Teicoplanin Resistant Enterococcus faecium Mutant during an Outbreak Caused by Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci with the VanB Phenotype
... the VanB phenotype to be identified in the ...the vanB gene cluster characterized VRES and VREM isolates, and they both contained the same vanB2 variant of the vanB ...of vanB ...
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Characterization of an Enterococcus gallinarum Isolate Carrying a Dual vanA and vanB Cassette
... Vancomycin resistance mediated by vanA and vanB gene clus- ters is primarily found in E. faecium and to a lesser extent in E. faecalis. Other Enterococcus spp. encountered in human infec- tions, including ...
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Molecular Analysis of Glycopeptide ResistantEnterococcus faecium Isolates Collected from Michigan Hospitals over a 6 Year Period
... vanA gene was found in 95 (92%) of the isolates ...vanA gene was located on the ...vanA gene was located on a ...vanA gene was always located on the ...vanA gene, with five isolates ...
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Outbreak of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faeciumof the Phenotype VanB in a Hospital in Warsaw, Poland: Probable Transmission of the Resistance Determinants into an Endemic Vancomycin Susceptible Strain
... The vanB gene clusters are usually located within active, composite transposons of the Tn1547 type, which may be in- serted into either chromosomal or plasmid ...The vanB locus RFLP analysis carried ...
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Low Vancomycin MICs and Fecal Densities Reduce the Sensitivity of Screening Methods for Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococci
... and/or vanB gene may circumvent this problem, al- though detection of the vanB gene should still be accompanied by confirmatory culture to ensure specificity, as other members of the bowel ...
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Prevalence and risk factors for VRE colonisation in a tertiary hospital in Melbourne, Australia: a cross sectional study
... Prima facie, our results suggest that antibiotic selec- tion pressures appear to play a larger role in determining VRE colonisation than cross-transmission at our institu- tion. Exposure to antibiotics, particularly ...
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Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility of enterococci in Cincinnati, Ohio: a prospective citywide survey
... the VanB phenotype, with vanB resistance genes detected by PCR and hybridization with gene-specific probes; and the ...the VanB phenotype had identical to closely related banding ...a ...
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High Prevalence of VanB2 Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus faecium in Taiwan
... the vanB gene and the pbp5 gene, which encodes high-level ampicillin resistance, has also been described ...the vanB gene cluster in various ...vanB2 gene cluster is transferred ...
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Detection of vancomycin resistant enterococci in fecal samples by PCR
... a vanB gene, and the vanC2-containing ...both vanB- and some vanC-containing ...some vanB and vanC isolates, Enterococ- cosel-V agar or similar bile-esculin azide agar formulations may be a ...
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vanA and vanB Incorporate into an Endemic Ampicillin Resistant Vancomycin SensitiveEnterococcus faecium Strain: Effect on Interpretation of Clonality
... Conclusions. We are doubtful whether an E. faecium strain could be named as the carrier of the van resistance determi- nant. When one E. faecium strain predominates in a hospital environment, transferable van resistance ...
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Asymptomatic colonization of Staphylococcus aureus with intermediate resistance to vancomycin harboring vanB resistance gene
... PFGE of SmaI restriction fragment was used as a molecular typing technique for classification and epidemiologic survey of VISA. However, two different cluster patterns were obtained. The first cluster included isolates ...
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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
... vanA gene, and none of the isolates contained vanB ...vanA gene among ...and vanB genes could be related to different reasons other than genetic ...
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Near-ubiquitous presence of a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST117/CT71/vanB –clone in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area of Germany
... The repeated isolation of a single predominant ST117/ CT71/vanB clone at geographically separated institu- tions (Additional file 5: Figure S1) throughout the reporting period suggests that it has highly adaptive ...
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From pattern to gene, from gene to pattern
... wingless gene in a stripe along the dorsoventral (DV) boundary of the disc (the future edge or margin of the wing, ...AS-C gene expression into single sensory organ precur- sors via the Notch-mediated ...
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Rapid Detection of Antimicrobial Resistant Organism Carriage: an Unmet Clinical Need
... and vanB are found almost exclusively in enterococci and are always considered epidemiologically sig- nificant (unlike mecA genes in CoNS), there is no need to design amplification assays to detect additional ...
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Comparison of the BD GeneOhm VanR Assay to Culture for Identification of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci in Rectal and Stool Specimens
... or vanB samples which were culture negative for Enterococcus faecalis or Enterococcus faecium (the clinical trial endpoint) were examined again by sub- bing the enrichment broth to SBA and testing the VRE ...
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Case case control study on factors associated with vanB vancomycin resistant and vancomycin susceptible enterococcal bacteraemia
... The duration of metronidazole therapy was linked to VSE bacteraemia, similar to our finding for vanB VRE bacteraemia. However, other factors linked to disease differed between these two types of bacteraemia. We ...
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