The importance of adjusting for enterococcus species when assessing the burden of vancomycin resistance: a cohort study including over 1000 cases of enterococcal bloodstream infections

BACKGROUND: Infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are on the rise worldwide. Few studies have tried to estimate the mortality burden as well as the financial burden of those infections and found that VRE are associated with increased mortality and higher hospital costs. However...

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Autores principales: Kramer, Tobias Siegfried, Remschmidt, Cornelius, Werner, Sven, Behnke, Michael, Schwab, Frank, Werner, Guido, Gastmeier, Petra, Leistner, Rasmus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30459945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0419-9

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