Identification of vat(E-3), a novel gene encoding resistance to quinupristin-dalfopristin in a strain of Enterococcus faecium from a hospital patient in the United Kingdom

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2001 Feb;45(2):645-6. doi: 10.1128/AAC.45.2.645-646.2001.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Acetyltransferases*
  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Bacterial Proteins / genetics*
  • Drug Therapy, Combination / pharmacology*
  • Enterococcus faecium / drug effects*
  • Genes, Bacterial / genetics*
  • Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • United Kingdom
  • Virginiamycin / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Virginiamycin
  • quinupristin-dalfopristin
  • Acetyltransferases
  • streptogramin A acetyltransferase, Enterococcus faecium

Associated data

  • GENBANK/AF139735
  • GENBANK/AF153312
  • GENBANK/AF229200
  • GENBANK/AF242872
  • GENBANK/AY008284