High Prevalence of vanM in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates from Shanghai, China

The vanM gene was first found in a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREm) isolate in Shanghai in 2006. In this study, we found that, in 70 VREm strains isolated in nine Shanghai hospitals from 2006 to 2014, vanM was more prevalent than the vanA gene (64.3% [45/70] versus 35.7% [25/70]). Th...

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Autores principales: Chen, Chunhui, Sun, Jingyong, Guo, Yan, Lin, Dongfang, Guo, Qinglan, Hu, Fupin, Zhu, Demei, Xu, Xiaogang, Wang, Minggui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2015
Materias:
Epidemiology and Surveillance
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4649207/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26369966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01732-15
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Sumario:The vanM gene was first found in a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREm) isolate in Shanghai in 2006. In this study, we found that, in 70 VREm strains isolated in nine Shanghai hospitals from 2006 to 2014, vanM was more prevalent than the vanA gene (64.3% [45/70] versus 35.7% [25/70]). The vanM-type isolates showed similar antimicrobial susceptibility patterns with the vanA types. The vanM-type VREm emerged and disseminated in Shanghai.

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