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Molecular characterization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a Chinese hospital between 2003 and 2009.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Sept 2011
Liu Yingmei, Cao Bin, Gu Li, Wang Hui
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From June 2003 to December 2009, 98 isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were cultured from clinical specimens taken from patients admitted to a 1,500-bed tertiary-care teaching hospital in Beijing, China. Isolates were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing. We investigated the structure of the vanA gene cluster and the distribution of the virulence markers...
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