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Emergence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ST1421 lacking the pstS gene in Korea.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology - 1 Jul 2020
Kim Hye Mee, Chung Doo Ryeon, Cho Sun Young, Huh Kyungmin, Kang Cheol-In, Peck Kyong Ran
Abstract excerpt
Although multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been used to study molecular epidemiology and to explore the population structure of Enterococcus faecium, vancomycin-resistant E. faecium (VREF) strains lacking the pstS gene that were non-typable using conventional MLST methods were reported recently. We found nationwide emergence of VREF isolates lacking pstS in Korea and hereby report the molecular...
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