Open AccessPhenotypic and genetic characterization of vancomycin‐resistant enterococci from hospitalized humans and from poultry in Korea
Author(s) -
Jung Woo Kyung,
Hong Soon Keun,
Lim Ji Youn,
Lim Suk Kyung,
Kwon Nam Hoon,
Kim Jun Man,
Koo Hye Cheong,
Kim So Hyun,
Seo Keun Seok,
Ike Yasuyoshi,
Tanimoto Koichi,
Park Yong Ho
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
fems microbiology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.899
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1574-6968
pISSN - 0378-1097
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00311.x
Subject(s) - transferability , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , biology , vancomycin , microbiology and biotechnology , transposable element , vancomycin resistant enterococci , poultry farming , antibiotic resistance , phenotype , genetics , antibiotics , bacteria , mutant , staphylococcus aureus , genotype , gene , ecology , statistics , mathematics , logit
Vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) isolates from humans (23 isolates) and poultry (20 isolates) were characterized by antibiotic susceptibility, vancomycin resistance transferability, pulsed‐field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and structural analysis of Tn 1546 ‐like elements. VRE isolates from humans and poultry showed different resistance patterns, transferability, and transfer rate. In addition to these phenotypic differences between humans and poultry VRE, PFGE and the structure of Tn 1546 ‐like elements were also distinct. Most poultry isolates (16/20) were identical to the prototype vanA transposon, Tn 1546 , while most human isolates (21/23) had multiple integrations of insertion sequence. The transmission of VRE and vancomycin resistance determinant between humans and poultry could not be demonstrated in this study.