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Genotyping and preemptive isolation to control an outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 15 Mar 2006
Mascini E M, Troelstra A, Beitsma M, Blok H E M, Jalink K P, Hopmans T E M, Fluit A C, Hene R J, Willems R J L, Verhoef J, Bonten M J M
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BACKGROUND: Control of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) in European hospitals is hampered because of widespread asymptomatic carriage of VRE by healthy Europeans. In 2000, our hospital (The University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands) was confronted with a large outbreak of VRE. INTERVENTION: On the basis of genotyping (by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis), epidemic and nonepidemic...
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