Draft Genome Sequence of a Vancomycin-resistant Sequence Type 6 Enterococcus faecalis Strain VREfs-461 with a Plasmid-Encoded vanHAX Operon in South Korea

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Here, we report a draft genome sequence of a vancomycin-resistant sequence type 6 (ST6) Enterococcus faecalis (VREfs) strain, VREfs-461, which was originally isolated from a human urine sample. To our knowledge, this is the first ST6 VREfs isolate from South Korea although many vancomycin-resistant E. faecium isolates with diverse STs have been reported in both humans and animals. The assembled genome of VREfs-461 carries three contigs including a 148,018-bp plasmid encoding the vanHAX operon. VREfs-461 displayed multiple resistance to gentamicin, streptomycin, teicoplanin, vancomycin, tetracycline, ciprofloxacin, and tigecycline. Copyright © 2026, The Korean Society for Microbiology and Biotechnology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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