Molecular and clinical epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

doi:10.1093/jac/dkh138

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Molecular and clinical epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

25 Feb 2004

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OBJECTIVES: With the recent emergence of vancomycin-resistant (VR) Staphylococcus aureus, subsequent to the suggested transfer of the vanA resistance gene from Enterococcus faecalis, we sought to determine risk factors for acquisition of VR E. faecalis and to evaluate the molecular epidemiology of this less-prevalent and less-studied species of VR enterococcus. METHODS: We compared clinical isolates of VR E....

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