Alarming spread of vancomycin resistant enterococci in Sweden since 2007

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2010, Pages

  Soderblom T ^a   Aspevall, O ^b   Erntell, M ^c   Hedin, G ^b   Heimer, D ^d   Hokeberg I ^c   Kidd Ljunggren, K ^e   Melhus, A ^f   Olsson Liljequist, B ^a   Sjogren I ^e   Smedjegard J ^c   Struwe, J ^a,g   Sylvan, S ^c   Tegmark Wisell, K ^a   Thore, M ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Department of Communicable Disease Control ^*  (Sweden)

^d Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control   (Sweden)

^e HALMSTAD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g Strama Swedish Strategic Programme Against Antibiotic Resistance   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; TEICOPLANIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SCREENING; SWEDEN; VAN GENE; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

EID: 77955105620     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2807/ese.15.29.19620-en     Document Type: Article

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