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Nursing-Home Patient Functional and Microbiota Status Drive Environmental Contamination with Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
Background: Patient colonization and shedding of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is a major source of environmental contamination leading to VRE transmission in nursing homes. We hypothesize that we can inform mitigation strategies by identifying patient clinical and microbiota features assoc...
Autores principales: | Wang, Joyce, Foxman, Betsy, Rao, A. Krishna, Mody, Lona, Snitkin, Evan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9551488/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.132 |
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