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Vancomycin-dependent Enterococcus faecalis clinical isolates and revertant mutants.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Jan 1999
Van Bambeke F, Chauvel M, Reynolds P E, Fraimow H S, Courvalin P
Abstract excerpt
Three vancomycin-dependent clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecalis of the VanB type were studied by determining (i) the sequence of the ddl gene encoding the host D-Ala:D-Ala ligase and the vanSB-vanRB genes specifying the two-component regulatory system that activates transcription of the vanB operon, (ii) the level of expression of resistance genes by using DD-dipeptidase activity as a reporter, and (iii)...
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