Molecular characterisation of outbreak-related strains of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from an intensive care unit in Beijing, China

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-154

  Zhu, X ^b   Zheng, B ^a   Wang, S ^a   Willems, R J L ^c   Xue, F ^a   Cao, X ^b   Li, Y ^a   Bo, S ^b   Liu, J ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; Intensive care unit; Multilocus sequence typing; Tn1546; Vancomycin resistant enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 67349142606     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.02.014     Document Type: Article

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