Identification of vancomycin-resistant enterococci clones and inter-hospital spread during an outbreak in Taiwan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Sai Cheong ^a   Wu, Mi Si ^a   Shih, Hsiang Ju ^a   Huang, Shu Huan ^b   Chiou, Meng Jiun ^a   See, Lai Chu ^a   Siu, Liang Kee ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Inter hospital spread; MLST; Outbreak; VRE

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPTOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; LINEZOLID; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; TEICOPLANIN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TAIWAN; VANA GENE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON-OXYGEN LIGASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; TAIWAN; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 84875687683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-163     Document Type: Article

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