High prevalence of ST-78 infection-associated vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from hospitals in Asunción, Paraguay

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 624-627

  Khan, M A ^a   Northwood, J B ^b   Loor, R G J ^a   Tholen, A T R ^a   Riera, E ^c   Falcon M ^c   van Belkum, A ^a   van Westreenen, M ^a   Hays, J P ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Quotient Bioresearch Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c LABORATORIO CENTRAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Paraguay)

^d Instituto de Medicina Tropical   (Paraguay)

Author keywords

Bacterial genotypes; Insertion sequences; Multilocus sequence typing; Transposons; Vancomycin resistant Enterococci

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; INFECTION RATE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PARAGUAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRANSPOSON; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 77953951032     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02898.x     Document Type: Note

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