Letter to the Editor
Prevalence of pSCFS7-like vectors among cfr-positive staphylococcal population in Spain

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Funding

A travel grant from Human Biology Programme, School of Integrative and Global Majors, University of Tsukuba, Japan.

Competing Interests

None declared.

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Acknowledgements

Authors would like to thank Dr. Maria Llorens-Martin for critical comments on the manuscript, and Dr. Francisco Suarez for editing and revising the manuscript.

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    The cfr gene has been associated with different plasmid vehicles detected in different countries, and the ability of cfr-carrying plasmids to be transmitted between strains and species is of global concern. The identification of vectors such as pSCFS3-like plasmids in the United State [8], the pSCFS7-like plasmids in European countries [9,10] or pSS-01-like plasmids in China [11] indicates a geographically distribution of the cfr-vectors. It has been speculated that the coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) are a reservoir of the cfr gene allowing transmission to S. aureus and other pathogenic bacteria [12,13].

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