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Emergence of 4',4"-aminoglycoside nucleotidyltransferase in enterococci.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 1990
Carlier C, Courvalin P
Abstract excerpt
Enterococcus faecium BM4102 was resistant to macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B-type (MLS) antibiotics; tetracycline-minocycline; and high levels of kanamycin, neomycin, tobramycin, and dibekacin but not gentamicin. This aminoglycoside resistance phenotype is new in enterococci. The genes conferring resistance to aminoglycosides and MLS antibiotics in this strain were carried on a plasmid, pIP810, that was...
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