Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 298, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 515-527

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

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; MLST; vanA; Vancomycin resistance; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LINEZOLID; STREPTOMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENE CLUSTER; GERMANY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 44349175494     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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