Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a hospital in Gdask, Poland, due to horizontal transfer of different Tn1546-like transposon variants and clonal spread of several strains.

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Twenty-two vancomycin-resistant enterococcal (VRE) isolates of the VanA phenotype (21 Enterococcus faecium isolates and 1 E. faecalis isolate), representative of a large outbreak that occurred in a hospital in Gdańsk, Poland, were studied. All of the isolates demonstrated resistance to a wide variety of other antimicrobial agents in addition to glycopeptides. Several lines of evidence suggested that the outbreak...

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