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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone

BACKGROUND: Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably better-adapted strains of VRE appear unpredictably; it is uncertain how they spread despite improved infection control. We aimed to investigate the relatedness of a novel s...

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Autores principales: Mahony, Andrew A., Buultjens, Andrew H., Ballard, Susan A., Grabsch, Elizabeth A., Xie, Shirley, Seemann, Torsten, Stuart, Rhonda L., Kotsanas, Despina, Cheng, Allen, Heffernan, Helen, Roberts, Sally A., Coombs, Geoffrey W., Bak, Narin, Ferguson, John K., Carter, Glen C., Howden, Benjamin P., Stinear, Timothy P., Johnson, Paul D. R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5863837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29588851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0335-z