Vancomycin-resistant vanB-type Enterococcus faecium isolates expressing varying levels of vancomycin resistance and being highly prevalent among neonatal patients in a single ICU

BACKGROUND: Vancomycin-resistant isolates of E. faecalis and E. faecium are of special concern and patients at risk of acquiring a VRE colonization/infection include also intensively-cared neonates. We describe here an ongoing high prevalence of VanB type E. faecium in a neonatal ICU hardly to ident...

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Autores principales: Werner, Guido, Klare, Ingo, Fleige, Carola, Geringer, Uta, Witte, Wolfgang, Just, Heinz-Michael, Ziegler, Renate
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-1-21

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