Molecular Analysis of VanA Outbreak of Enterococcus faecium in Two Warsaw Hospitals: The Importance of Mobile Genetic Elements

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium represents a growing threat in hospital-acquired infections. Two outbreaks of this pathogen from neighboring Warsaw hospitals have been analyzed in this study. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of SmaI-digested DNA, multilocus VNTR analysis (MLVA), and...

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Autores principales: Wardal, Ewa, Markowska, Katarzyna, Żabicka, Dorota, Wróblewska, Marta, Giemza, Małgorzata, Mik, Ewa, Połowniak-Pracka, Hanna, Woźniak, Agnieszka, Hryniewicz, Waleria, Sadowy, Ewa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25003118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/575367

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25003118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/575367

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