Molecular Analysis of VanA Outbreak of Enterococcus faecium in Two Warsaw Hospitals: The Importance of Mobile Genetic Elements

Figure 3

PFGE of S1-digested total DNA of selected 27 VREfm isolates, visualized by ethidium bromide staining (a) and subjected to Southern hybridization with the following probes: vanA (b), 𝑟𝑒𝑝17_pRUM (c), axe-txe (d), 𝑟𝑒𝑝_pLG1 (e), pilA (f), aac(6′)-Ie-aph(2′′)-Ia (g), 𝑟𝑒𝑝18_pEF418 (h), 𝑟𝑒𝑝2_pRE25 (i), and  ω -ε-ζ (j). Lanes A–a, isolates designation as described in Table 3.

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