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Management of a hospital-wide vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in a Dutch general hospital, 2014–2017: successful control using a restrictive screening strategy
BACKGROUND: The emergence of vancomycin resistant enterococci poses a major problem in healthcare settings. Here we describe a hospital-wide outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a general hospital in The Netherlands in the period December 2014–February 2017. Due to late detection...
Autores principales: | Weterings, Veronica, van Oosten, Anita, Nieuwkoop, Ellen, Nelson, Jolande, Voss, Andreas, Wintermans, Bas, van Lieshout, Joris, Kluytmans, Jan, Veenemans, Jacobien |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7893727/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33602300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-021-00906-x |
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