Emergence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci at a university hospital in Taiwan: Persistence of multiple species and multiple clones

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 828-833

  Hsueh, Po Ren ^a   Teng, Lee Jene ^a   Pan, Hui Ju ^b   Chen, Yu Chi ^b   Wang, Li Hua ^b   Chang, Shan Chwen ^a   Ho, Shen Wu ^a   Luh, Kwen Tay ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c National Science Council   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROCOCCUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 0033252628     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501592     Document Type: Article

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