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Presence of the esp gene in Enterococcus faecium derived from oropharyngeal microbiota of haematology patients.
Archives of oral biology - 1 Apr 2018
Jovanović Milica, Tošić Tanja, Jovanović Snežana, Stošović Rajica, Stevanović Goran, Velebit Branko, Zervos Marcus John
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OBJECTIVES: Antibiotic use and immunocompromised status in haematology patients have been shown to determine the constituents of commensal microbiota with highly increased resistance, including vancomycin resistant enterococci. We compared the carriage of virulence factor genes and the capacity for biofilm formation in vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) originating from the oropharyngeal and stool cultures of...
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