Screening for vancomycin-resistant enterococci: Results of a survey in Stockholm

APMIS

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 413-417

  Fang, Hong ^a   Nord, Carl Erik ^a   Ullberg, Måns ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Enterococci; Resistant; Stockholm; Vancomycin; VRE

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 77951139051     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2010.02605.x     Document Type: Article

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