Study of the first outbreak of vanA enterococcus faecium in the canary islands;Estudio del primer brote por Enterococcus faecium vanA en Canarias

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 430-434

  Montesinos, Isabel ^a   Campos, Silvia ^a   Ramos, María José ^a   Ruiz Garbajosa, Patricia ^b   Riverol, Débora ^a   Batista, Nínive ^c   Ojeda Vargas, Mar ^d   Sierra, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CANDELARIA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO INSULAR DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonal complex 17; Kidney transplant patients; Molecular typing; Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium

Indexed keywords

LINEZOLID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

ADULT; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 77956341420     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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