In article <4khl43$6lm at newsbf02.news.aol.com>, redrebel7 at aol.com (Red Rebel7) says:
>>Hello all,
>I am trying to put together a seminar for our microbiology department as a
>final project before I graduate. I have selected vancomycin resistant S.
>aureus. Craig
There have been a very few reports of VR S. aureus. Supposedly there is
a strain in England in a freezer (Noble strain, check FEMS Micro Letts
around '92). I believe that it was reported at a meeting that the VancoR
genes could be transferred in vitro into S. aureus, but I don't believe this was
published. I think you might have to spend a good deal of time at your
seminar discussing the genetics and biochemistry of VancoR in enterococci
...or else give a very short seminar. ;^)
Tom
