Investigation of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in neonatal intensive care unit

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 5342-5347

  Cilo, Burcu Dalyan ^a   Ağca, Harun ^a   Efe, Kadir ^a   Sınırtaş, Melda ^a   Çelebi, Solmaz ^b   Özkan, Hilal ^c   Köksal, Nilgün ^c   Hacımustafaoğlu, Mustafa ^b   Özakın, Cüneyt ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (Turkey)

^c Division of Neonatalogy Department of Pediatrics   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Enterococcus; Neonatal; Outbreak; PFGE

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DAPTOMYCIN; LINEZOLID; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; EPSILOMETER TEST; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; URINE CULTURE; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WOUND;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM;

EID: 84921510672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19405901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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