Characterization of the Tn 916 -like Transposon Tn 3872 in a Strain of Abiotrophia defectiva ( Streptococcus defectivus ) Causing Sequential Episodes of Endocarditis in a Child

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Clinical blood isolates from three sequential episodes of endocarditis occurring over a 6-month period in a child with a malformative cardiopathy were investigated. All isolates identified as Abiotrophia defectiva were resistant to erythromycin-clindamycin and to tetracycline-minocycline, due to the presence of sequences homologous to the erythromycin resistance gene ermB and to the tetracycline resistance gene...

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