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VRE in the Republic of Ireland: clinical significance, characteristics and molecular similarity of isolates.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Apr 2000
Nourse C, Byrne C, Kaufmann M, Keane C T, Fenelon L, Smyth E G, Hone R, Butler K
Abstract excerpt
There have been increasing reports worldwide of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) since they were first noted over ten years ago. This study sought to investigate the clinical significance of VRE in Ireland and to compare the phenotypic, genotypic and molecular characteristics of isolates recovered from patients in different institutions. The relative contribution of inter-hospital transmission of strains to...
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