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Vancomycin tolerance induced by erythromycin but not by loss of vncRS, vex3, or pep27 function in Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2002
Robertson Gregory T, Zhao Jingyong, Desai Bhushan V, Coleman William H, Nicas Thalia I, Gilmour Raymond, Grinius Leo, Morrison Donald A, Winkler Malcolm E
Abstract excerpt
Vancomycin-tolerant Streptococcus pneumoniae is a growing problem among drug-resistant human pathogens. Some vancomycin-tolerant pneumococci have been reported to carry mutations in loci encoding a two-component regulatory system designated VncRS or in a proximal ABC transporter, Vex. A model was advanced proposing that the tolerance phenotype resulted from the inability of a vncS mutant to respond to the...
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