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Molecular epidemiology and risk factors for colonization by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in patients with hematologic malignancies.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology - 1 May 2011
Almyroudis N G, Lesse A J, Hahn T, Samonis G, Hazamy P A, Wongkittiroch K, Wang E S, McCarthy P L, Wetzler M, Segal B H
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OBJECTIVE: To study the molecular epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonization and to identify modifiable risk factors among patients with hematologic malignancies. SETTING: A hematology-oncology unit with high prevalence of VRE colonization. PARTICIPANTS: Patients with hematologic malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients admitted to the hospital. METHODS:...
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