Wipf, Juliette Ramona Karin; Schwendener, Sybille; Nielsen, Jesper Boye; Westh, Henrik; Perreten, Vincent (2015). The new macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance gene erm(45) is located within a genomic island in Staphylococcus fleurettii. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 59(6), pp. 3578-3581. American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/AAC.00369-15
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Genome alignment of a macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin B (MLSB)-resistant Staphylococcus fleurettii strain with an MLSB-susceptible S. fleurettii strain revealed a novel 11,513-bp genomic island carrying the new erythromycin resistance methylase gene erm(45). This gene was shown to confer inducible MLSB resistance when cloned into Staphylococcus aureus. The erm(45)-containing island was integrated into the housekeeping gene guaA in S. fleurettii and was able to form a circular intermediate but was not transmissible to S. aureus.