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Enterococcus gallinarum carrying the vanA gene cluster: first report in Brazil.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Nov 2004
Camargo I L B C, Barth A L, Pilger K, Seligman B G S, Machado A R L, Darini A L C
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In 2000, Enterococcus faecalis resistant to vancomycin was first reported at a tertiary hospital in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. The resistance spread to other hospitals and surveillance programs were established by hospital infection committees to prevent the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. In February 2002, an isolate initially identified at the genus level as Enterococcus was obtained by...
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