vi medicine informatics
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Resistance to vancomycin is transferred via plasmids and encodes enzymes that convert the D-ala D-ala peptide bridge to D-ala D-lac, preventing vancomycin from binding. Vancomycin resistance is much more common with Enterococcus faeciumthan with Enterococcus faecalis - An alteration to terminal amino acid of E. faecium’s cell wall component can lead to resistance
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