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Nosocomial infection caused by vancomycin-susceptible multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecalis over a long period in a university hospital in Japan.
Microbiology and immunology - 1 Nov 2014
Kudo Michiaki, Nomura Takahiro, Yomoda Sachie, Tanimoto Koichi, Tomita Haruyoshi
Abstract excerpt
Compared with other developed countries, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are not widespread in clinical environments in Japan. There have been no VRE outbreaks and only a few VRE strains have sporadically been isolated in our university hospital in Gunma, Japan. To examine the drug susceptibility of Enterococcus faecalis and nosocomial infection caused by non-VRE strains, a retrospective surveillance was...
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