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Bacteriocin Production in Vancomycin-Resistant and Vancomycin-Susceptible Enterococcus Isolates of Different Origins

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dc.creator Campo, Rosa Del
dc.creator Tenorio, Carmen
dc.creator Jiménez Díaz, Rufino
dc.creator Rubio, Carmen
dc.creator Gómez-Lus, Rafael
dc.creator Baquero, Fernando
dc.creator Torres, Carmen
dc.date 2008-04-11T07:19:18Z
dc.date 2008-04-11T07:19:18Z
dc.date 2001-03
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:01:59Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:01:59Z
dc.identifier Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 45(3): 905–912 (2001)
dc.identifier 1098-6596
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3533
dc.identifier 10.1128/AAC.45.3.905-912.2001
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3533
dc.description Bacteriocin production was determined for 218 Enterococcus isolates (Enterococcus faecalis [93] and E. faecium [125]) obtained from different origins (human clinical samples [87], human fecal samples [78], sewage [28], and chicken samples [25]) and showing different vancomycin susceptibility patterns (vancomycin resistant, all of them vanA positive [56], and vancomycin susceptible [162]). All enterococcal isolates were randomly selected except for the vancomycin-resistant ones. A total of 33 isolates of eight different bacterial genera were used as indicators for bacteriocin production. Forty-seven percent of the analyzed enterococcal isolates were bacteriocin producers (80.6% of E. faecalis and 21.6% of E. faecium isolates). The percentage of bacteriocin producers was higher among human clinical isolates (63.2%, 81.8% of vancomycin-resistant isolates and 60.5% of vancomycin-susceptible ones) than among isolates from the other origins (28 to 39.3%). Only one out of the 15 vancomycin-resistant isolates from human fecal samples was a bacteriocin producer, while 44.4% of fecal vancomycin-susceptible isolates were. The bacteriocin produced by the vanA-containing E. faecium strain RC714, named bacteriocin RC714, was further characterized. This bacteriocin activity was cotransferred together with the vanA genetic determinant to E. faecalis strain JH2-2. Bacteriocin RC714 was purified to homogeneity and its primary structure was determined by amino acid sequencing, showing an identity of 88% and a similarity of 92% with the previously described bacteriocin 31 from E. faecalis YI717. The presence of five different amino acids in bacteriocin RC714 suggest that this could be a new bacteriocin. The results obtained suggest that the epidemiology of vancomycin resistance may be influenced by different factors, including bacteriocin production.
dc.description R. D. C. was supported by a grant from the Diputación General de Aragón of Spain (project P49/97) and from the Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia. This work has been supported in part by a grant from the Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (00/0545) of Spain.
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher American Society for Microbiology
dc.rights closedAccess
dc.title Bacteriocin Production in Vancomycin-Resistant and Vancomycin-Susceptible Enterococcus Isolates of Different Origins
dc.type Artículo


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