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VanB-type Enterococcus faecium clinical isolate successively inducibly resistant to, dependent on, and constitutively resistant to vancomycin.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 May 2009
San Millan Alvaro, Depardieu Florence, Godreuil Sylvain, Courvalin Patrice
Abstract excerpt
Three Enterococcus faecium strains isolated successively from the same patient, vancomycin-resistant strain BM4659, vancomycin-dependent strain BM4660, and vancomycin-revertant strain BM4661, were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and harbored plasmid pIP846, which confers Van...
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