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Intensive care unit dissemination of multiple clones of linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2012
Ntokou Eleni, Stathopoulos Constantinos, Kristo Ioulia, Dimitroulia Evangelia, Labrou Maria, Vasdeki Afroditi, Makris Demosthenes, Zakynthinos Epameinondas, Tsakris Athanassios, Pournaras Spyros
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Outbreaks caused by linezolid-resistant (LR) enterococci remain rare. We report the epidemiological and molecular characteristics of the multiclonal dissemination of LR enterococci in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a Greek hospital. METHODS: All LR enterococcal isolates recovered from patients hospitalized in the ICU of the University Hospital of Larissa, Greece, between January 2007 and October...
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