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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates causing hospital outbreaks in northern Italy belong to the multilocus sequence typing C1 lineage.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Jan 2004
Bonora Maria Grazia, Ligozzi Marco, De Fatima Maria, Bragagnolo Luciana, Goglio Antonio, Guazzotti Gian Carlo, Fontana Roberta
Abstract excerpt
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was used to obtain insights into the genetic relationships between 14 vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) isolates from humans (hospitalized patients, 5 strains) and nonhuman sources (meat and poultry, 9 strains) in northern Italy over the period 1993-2001. The typing scheme (Homan et al., 2002, J. Clin. Microb., 40:1963-1971) based on seven housekeeping genes--adk...
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