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Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus fecal colonization among kidney transplant patients

BACKGROUND: End stage renal disease patients are at risk of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infections. The first reports of VRE isolation were from hemodialysis patients. However, to date, VRE fecal colonization rates as well as associated risk factors in kidney transplant patients have not...

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Autores principales: Freitas, Maria Cecília S, Pacheco-Silva, Alvaro, Barbosa, Dulce, Silbert, Suzane, Sader, Hélio, Sesso, Ricardo, Camargo, Luis Fernando A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16923193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-133