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Clonal heterogeneity of clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium with unique vanS.
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH - 1 May 2008
Pourshafie Mohammad R, Talebi Malihe, Saifi Mahnaz, Katouli Mohammad, Eshraghi Saeed, Kühn Inger, Möllby Roland
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OBJECTIVE: To examine the clonal diversity of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). METHODS: A total of 900 clinical isolates of enterococci were obtained, and VRE isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility tests, biochemical fingerprinting with the PhPlate system (PhP), ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing. RESULTS: Forty-nine of all enterococcal isolates were resistant to...
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