Membrane vesicles derived from Enterococcus faecalis promote the co-transfer of important antibiotic resistance genes located on both plasmids and chromosomes.
Mengyu ZhaoShuang HeRenqiao WenChao LiXinggui ChenXiaolong LinHongning WangYizhi TangPublished in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2023)
To our knowledge, this is the first report of MV-mediated co-transfer of ARG-carrying plasmids and transposons in the Gram-positive bacterium E. faecium.