Molecular Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Infecting Recipients of Solid Organs in the Transplant Surgery Ward in 2005 and 2006

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3261-3263

  Mlynarczyk, A ^a   Grzybowska, W ^b   Mrowka, A ^b   Tyski, S ^a,b   Buczkowska, T ^a   Pazik, J ^a   Durlik, M ^a   Kwiatkowski, A ^a   Adadynski, L ^a   Chmura, A ^a   Paczek, L ^a   Mlynarczyk, G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WARD;

BILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSPLANTATION; URINE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 70350504459     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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