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Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sequence type 796 - rapid international dissemination of a new epidemic clone
22 Mar 2018
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Abstract Background Vancomycin-resistantEnterococcus faecium(VRE) is a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. New, presumably better-adapted strains of VRE appear unpredictably; it is uncertain how they spread despite improved infection control. We aimed to investigate the relatedness of a novel sequence type (ST) ofvanB E. faecium- ST796 - very near its time of origin from hospitals in three Australian...
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