Growing prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecalis in the region with the highest prevalence of vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus aureus

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 922-924

  Hayakawa, Kayoko ^a   Marchaim, Dror ^a   Vidaillac, Celine ^a,b   Lephart, Paul ^c   Pogue, Jason M ^c   Sunkara, Bharath ^a   Kotra, Harikrishna ^a   Hasan, Asma ^a   Shango, Maryann ^a   Yerramalla, Yashwanth ^a   Osunlana, Adedayo M ^a   Chopra, Teena ^a   Dhar, Sorabh ^a   Salimnia, Hossein ^a,c   Rybak, Michael J ^a,b   Kaye, Keith S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 80051753204     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661599     Document Type: Note

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