Identification was performed in March 2008 for the 76Enterococcus strains isolated from the Han-river, which is used as water supply for Seoul citizens. The antibiotic susceptibility, antibiotic resistant structural analysis, trans-conjugation, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) were also carried out for the isolated strains. Among the isolated strains, 25 strains were E. casseliflavus, 4 strains were E. faecalis and 1 strain was E. hirae. Investigation of antibiotic susceptibility indicated that 15 strains demonstrated tolerance against vancomycin, and that 11 strains of E. faecium and 4 strains of E. casseliflavus were VRE. The vanA gene detection of the VRE strains revealed that 6 E. faecium strains were vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) possessing vanA. Analyses of transposon Tn1546 structure containing vanA demonstrated that Km36 and Km37 belonged to Tn1 type, Km20 and Km38 was Tn2 type, and Km39 and Km40 was Tn3 type. PFGE disclosed that among the 6 VREF strains, Km36 and Km37 exhibited equivalent subtype, while the rest 4 strains showed subtypes different to each other. MLST for the 6 VREF strains disclosed that 3 strains were ST78, while the rest 3 strains were ST18, ST192 and ST230, respectively. All these clonal complexes were derived from CC17 which has been isolated from clinical sources. 4 strains belonged to CC78, while the rest 2 strains were CC18 and CC192, respectively. Martins da Costa et al., 2006;Lata et al., 2009). KeywordsVancomycin 내성 장구균(vancomycin-resistant enterococci; VRE)은 1986년 유럽에서 처음 보고된 이후 전 세계적으로 분리 되고 있으며 중요한 병원성 감염 균종의 하나로 알려져 있다 (Leelercq et al., 1988). 우리나라에서는 1992년 vancomycin 고도 내성 E. durans가 병원에서 처음 분리된 이후 계속적으로 분리 검출되고 있다 (Kim and Song, 1998;Lee et al., 2001;Hwang et al., 2010).국내에서 가축의 성장촉진 목적으로 널리 사용되었던 avoparcin 은 vancomycin과 화학구조가 유사하여 일부 Enterococcus에서 vancomycin 내성이 보고되어 1997년부터 avoparcin의 사용을 금지하였으나 금지한 후에도 육가공품과 동물 분변에서 지속적 으로 VRE가 분리되고 있으며 (Jung et al., 2006), 이외에도 quinupristin/dalfopristin, tetracycline 내성 장구균에 대한 위험 성이 보고되고 있다 (Hwang et al., 2010).Vancomycin 고도내성 VRE에서 vancomycin 내성 유전자 vanA형이 영국에서 최초로 보고되었다 (Morrison et al., 1997). 특히 vanA에 의해 VanA phenotype을 나타내는 Enterococcus 는 glycopeptide계 항생제인 vancomycin과 teicoplanin에 대해 높은 농도의 내성을 나타낸다 (Weigel et al., 2003).vanA는 유전자 전이에 직접 관련되는 transposon 중 하나인 Tn1546 내에 존재한다. Tn1546은 vanA, vanR, vanS, vanH, vanX, vanY 및 vanZ 유전자로 이루어져 있고, 크기는 대부분 10.8 kb이며(Brilliantova et al., 2010
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