How do certain gram-positive bacteria become resistant to vancomycin?
Answer: By mutation of the terminal D-alanine-D-alanine sequence in bacterial cell wall to which vancomycin binds. Vancomycin inhibits cell wall synthesis but it is not a β-lactam drug.
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