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Detection of Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci from Rectal Swab Samples by Becton-Dickinson GeneOhm VanR assay and Culture at ICU of a Tertiary Care Center in Turkey

Objectives: Vancomycin resistance is due to change in ligase enzyme that destroys the binding of the drug. The gold standard is culture; but now molecular methods have also been developed. The aim was to detect the VRE rate at ICUs by culture and BD GeneOhm™ VanR and compare the results of both assa...

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Autores principales: Gozaydin, Ayhan, Kose, Sukran, Ece, Gulfem, Ersan, Gursel, Gonullu, Mustafa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publicaitons 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3809269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353607