The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

BMC Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Werner, Guido ^a   Klare, Ingo ^a   Witte, Wolfgang ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DIFFERENTIATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MULTIPLE LOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT ANALYSIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; GERMANY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GERMANY; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 34247880297     PISSN: 14712180     EISSN: 14712180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2180-7-28     Document Type: Article

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