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. 2007 Sep;51(9):3445-8.
doi: 10.1128/AAC.00559-07. Epub 2007 Jul 9.

Characterization of a daptomycin-nonsusceptible vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strain in a patient with endocarditis

Kathleen Julian  1 , Klaudia Kosowska-Shick, Cynthia Whitener, Martin Roos, Harald Labischinski, Aileen Rubio, Leslie Parent, Lois Ednie, Laura Koeth, Tatiana Bogdanovich, Peter C Appelbaum
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Characterization of a daptomycin-nonsusceptible vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strain in a patient with endocarditis

Kathleen Julian et al. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

We analyzed the emergence of daptomycin nonsusceptibility in a patient with persistent vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) bacteremia. The daptomycin-nonsusceptible VISA's cell wall demonstrated a reduction in muramic acid O-acetylation, a phenotypic parameter not previously reported for VISA; some isolates also contained a single point mutation in the mprF gene.

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