Outbreak of infections in a Greek University Hospital involving a single clone of high-level aminoglycoside-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 786-789

  Pournaras, Spyros ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b   Kaufmann, Mary E ^c   Douboyas, John ^a   Antoniadis, Antonios ^b  

^a AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; GENTAMICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GREECE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK;

EID: 0034541450     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501737     Document Type: Article

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