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The penicillin resistance of Enterococcus faecalis JH2-2r results from an overproduction of the low-affinity penicillin-binding protein PBP4 and does not involve a psr-like gene The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are Y17797 for the 8·4 kb segment of pDML521; AJ290435 for pbp4 of E. faecalis JH2-2; AJ276231 and AJ276232 for the psr-like gene of E. faecalis JH2-2 or JH2-2r, respectively.

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