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PLASMID
Volume 114, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2021.102558
Keywords
VRE; HiRECC; Transposition; Recombination; Plasmid
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- Narodowa Agencja Wymiany Akademickiej NAWA [PPN/BEK/2018/1/00079]
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This review focuses on the diversity of genetic elements containing vanB determinants in hospital-associated strains of E. faecium and E. faecalis, the mechanisms behind the spread of vanB, and provides an overview of the distribution of vanB-MGE among other enterococci and Gram-positive bacteria, potentially serving as reservoirs for vanB genes.
An increasing resistance to vancomycin among clinically relevant enterococci, such as Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium is a cause of a great concern, as it seriously limits treatment options. The vanB operon is one of most common determinants of this type of resistance. Genes constituting the operon are located in conjugative transposons, such as Tn1549-type transposons or, more rarely, in ICEEfaV583-type structures. Such elements show differences in structure and size, and reside in various sites of bacterial chromosome or, in the case of Tn1549-type transposons, are also occasionally associated with plasmids of divergent replicon types. While conjugative transposition contributes to the acquisition of Tn1549-type transposons from anaerobic gut commensals by enterococci, chromosomal recombination and conjugal transfer of plasmids appear to represent main mechanisms responsible for horizontal dissemination of vanB determinants among hospital E. faecalis and E. faecium. This review focuses on diversity of genetic elements harbouring vanB determinants in hospital-associated strains of E. faecium and E. faecalis, the mechanisms beyond vanB spread in populations of these bacteria, and provides an overview of the vanB-MGE distribution among other enterococci and Gram-positive bacteria as potential reservoirs of vanB genes.
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