Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium containing both vanA and vanB gene clusters

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-381

  Dendle, C ^a   Ballard, S A ^a   Grabsch, E A ^a   Gao, W ^a   Grayson, M L ^a  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN VANA; PROTEIN VANB; TEICOPLANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 61349167750     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.12.006     Document Type: Letter

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