Fecal carriage of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in hospitalized patients and those living in the community in the Netherlands

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 3026-3031

  Endtz, Hubert P ^a   Van Den Braak, Nicole ^a   Van Belkum, Alex ^a   Kluytmans, Jan A J W ^b,c   Koeleman, Johannes G M ^b,d   Spanjaard, Lodewijk ^b,e   Voss, Andreas ^b,f   Weersink, Annemarie J L ^b,g   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^b,d   Buiting, Anton G M ^h   Van Duin, Anneriet ⁱ   Verbrugh, Henri A ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Working Party Hosp Infect E   (Netherlands)

^c Ignatius Hospital   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h St Elisabeth Hospital   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Zuiderziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AVOPARCIN; ORITAVANCIN; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CROSS RESISTANCE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0030724346     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.12.3026-3031.1997     Document Type: Article

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