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Clinical and epidemiological significance of enterococci intrinsically resistant to vancomycin (possessing the vanC genotype)
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1997
Toye B, Shymanski J, Bobrowska M, Woods W, Ramotar K
Abstract excerpt
Constitutive low-level vancomycin resistance is found intrinsically in certain enterococcal species and is encoded by vanC ligase genes. These intrinsically vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) will be referred to as VANC VRE. A prospective study to determine the clinical and epidemiologic sign...
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