Volume 10, Number 7—July 2004
Research
Nosocomial Infection with Vancomycin-dependent Enterococci1
Paul A. Tambyah*
, John A. Marx*, and Dennis G. Maki*
, John A. Marx*, and Dennis G. Maki*
Figure 2
Figure 2. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of the three strains of vancomycin-dependent enterococci (VDE) and, in two cases, a vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) strain isolated before the VDE in the same patient. The three VDE strains appear to be genetically distinct, although two may be related. In both cases in which VRE was isolated before VDE, VRE and subsequent VDE strains appear genetically identical. RFLP, restriction fragement length polymorphism; MW, molecular weight; λ, lambda ladder, Y, yeast chromosome marker.
1Presented in part at the 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, San Diego, CA, September 24–27, 1998.
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