Hospital dissemination of a clonal complex 17 vanB2-containing Enterococcus faecium [6]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 806-807

  Nebreda, Teresa ^a   Oteo, Jesús ^b   Aldea, Carmen ^a   García Estébanez, Carmen ^b   Gastelu Iturri, Juan ^a   Bautista, Verónica ^b   García Cobos, Silvia ^b   Campos, José ^b,c  

^a Hospital General del Insalud Soria   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Multiresistance; Outbreaks; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANB PROTEIN; VANCOMYCIN; VANB PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS;

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 34250025473     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm022     Document Type: Letter

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