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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
Abstract excerpt
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 patient environment of the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff, Wales, UK. In addition, over the same...
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