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Molecular characterization of clinical and environmental isolates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis from a teaching hospital in Wales.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Sept 2003
Kuriyama Tomoari, Williams David W, Patel Mital, Lewis Michael A O, Jenkins Lynda E, Hill Dylan W, Hosein Ian K
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The present study describes the first molecular characterization of environmental and clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in Wales. Over a 3-month period (May-July 2000), 134 isolates of VRE (89 Enterococcus faecium and 45 Enterococcus faecalis) were isolated from the pati...
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