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Difficulties in detection and identification of Enterococcus faecium with low-level inducible resistance to vancomycin, during a hospital outbreak.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Sept 2008
Pendle S, Jelfs P, Olma T, Su Y, Gilroy N, Gilbert G L
Abstract excerpt
Between June and November 2004, a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) strain was isolated from 13 patients in the haematology/bone marrow transplant unit. There were difficulties in identifying the organism, which had low-level, inducible vancomycin resistance, and standard screening methods did not reveal carriage in patients or their contacts. These technical failures led to spread of VRE and delays...
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