DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00102-20
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History
- Received February 11, 2020
- Accepted March 18, 2020
- Published online April 8, 2020.
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Copyright © 2020 Hashimoto et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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- Paul D. Fey, Editor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Author Information
- Yusuke Hashimotoa,
- Izumi Kitab,
- Masato Suzukic,
- Hidetada Hirakawaa,
- Hirofumi Ohtakib and
- Haruyoshi Tomitaa,d
- aDepartment of Bacteriology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
- bDepartment of Medical Technology, Kansai University of Health Sciences, Kumatori, Osaka, Japan
- cAntimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
- dLaboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
- Address correspondence to Haruyoshi Tomita, tomitaha{at}gunma-u.ac.jp
Yusuke Hashimoto and Izumi Kita contributed equally to this article. Author order was determined by the amount of contribution to the paper.
Citation Hashimoto Y, Kita I, Suzuki M, Hirakawa H, Ohtaki H, Tomita H. 2020. First report of the local spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci ascribed to the interspecies transmission of a vanA gene cluster-carrying linear plasmid. mSphere 5:e00102-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSphere.00102-20.
