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Diversity of plasmids and Tn1546-type transposons among VanA Enterococcus faecium in Poland.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Feb 2017
Wardal E, Kuch A, Gawryszewska I, Żabicka D, Hryniewicz W, Sadowy E
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial resistance, Tn1546 transposon variability and plasmid diversity among Polish vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) isolates of VanA phenotype in the context of their clonal structure. Two hundred sixteen clinical VREfm isolates collected between 1997 and 2010 were studied by antimicrobial susceptibility testing, MLST, MLVA and detection...
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