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Spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in two haematological centres in Russia.
International journal of antimicrobial agents - 1 Feb 2010
Brilliantova Anna N, Kliasova Galina A, Mironova Anastasia V, Tishkov Vladimir I, Novichkova Galina A, Bobrynina Vlasta O, Sidorenko Sergei V
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This paper describes the clonal diversity of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated from patients with haematological malignancies in Russia. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typing of 129 vanA-positive E. faecium strains revealed 23 independent restriction profiles with two predominant clonal types. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of 16 strains selected from two predominant PFGE types showed...
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