Article
Evidence for the genetic unrelatedness of nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strains in a pediatric hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 1991
Bingen E H, Denamur E, Lambert-Zechovsky N Y, Elion J
Abstract excerpt
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci are now found with increasing frequency. Up to now, epidemiological studies of enterococci have been limited by the lack of convenient and accessible methods for comparing strains. In this study, we report an epidemiological investigation on 16 nosocomial vancomyc...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Cross Infection
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterococcus faecium
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Female
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Vancomycin