Clonal outbreak of ST17 multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium harbouring an Inc18-like::Tn1546 plasmid in a haemo-oncology ward of a Spanish hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 832-836

  Valdezate, Sylvia ^a   Miranda, Consuelo ^b   Navarro, Ana ^a   Freitas, Ana R ^c,d   Cabrera, Jorge J ^b   Carrasco, Gema ^a   Coque, Teresa M ^d,e,f   Jiménez Romano, Elena ^b   Saéz Nieto, Juan A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clonal outbreak; Haemo oncology patients; Inc18; ST17 E. faecium; Tn1546; VanA

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANT(6') PROTEIN; APH(3') PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; ERM(B) PROTEIN; ESP PROTEIN; HYL PROTEIN; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; PROTEIN PARC; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TN1546 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL SPECIES; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; ONCOLOGY WARD; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPAIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84858643459     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr545     Document Type: Article

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