Acquisition and Duration of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal Carriage in Relation to Strain Type

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5377-5383

  Mascini, E M ^a,b   Jalink, K P ^a   Kamp Hopmans, T E M ^a   Blok, H E M ^a   Verhoef, J ^a   Bonten, M J M ^a,b   Troelstra, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; ESP GENE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGENY; SEROTYPING; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0347480123     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5377-5383.2003     Document Type: Article

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