Nosocomial spread of hospital-adapted CC17 vancomycinresistant enterococcus faecium in a tertiary-care hospital of Beijing, China

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 498-503

  Xu, Hong Tao ^a,b   Tian, Rui ^c   Chen, Dong Ke ^b   Xiao, Fei ^b   Nie, Zhi Yang ^a,b   Hu, Yun Jian ^b   Zhang, Xiu Zhen ^b   Li, Jin Ming ^a,b  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Enterococcus faecium; Infection control; Outbreaks; Vancomycin resistance

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; GERIATRIC WARD; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; SCREENING TEST; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VANA GENE; VANB GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WARD;

CHINA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 79951797070     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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