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Incidence, management and outcomes of the first cfr-mediated linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis outbreak in a tertiary referral centre in the Republic of Ireland.
The Journal of hospital infection - 1 Aug 2015
O'Connor C, Powell J, Finnegan C, O'Gorman A, Barrett S, Hopkins K L, Pichon B, Hill R, Power L, Woodford N, Coffey J C, Kearns A, O'Connell N H, Dunne C P
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AIM: To report the first Irish outbreak of cfr-mediated linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis. METHODS: Linezolid-resistant S. epidermidis isolated at University Hospital Limerick from four blood cultures, one wound and four screening swabs (from nine patients) between April and June 2013 were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) and staphylococcal...
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