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Detection and typing of vancomycin-resistance genes of enterococci from clinical and nosocomial surveillance specimens by multiplex PCR.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Jun 2001
Lu J J, Perng C L, Chiueh T S, Lee S Y, Chen C H, Chang F Y, Wang C C, Chi W M
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Ninety-three clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) collected from nine hospitals in Taiwan were examined for the presence of vanA, vanB, vanC1, or vanC2/vanC3 genes by a multiplex PCR. Forty-seven of these VRE isolates were vanA positive, 1 contained both vanC1 and vanA, 40...
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