Article
Stability of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal genotypes isolated from long-term-colonized patients.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Feb 1998
Bonten M J, Hayden M K, Nathan C, Rice T W, Weinstein R A
Abstract excerpt
Genotypic variation and stability of isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) were studied to determine genetic diversity and whether strain definition based on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) is applicable to an endemic setting. Twenty-two PFGE types were identified among 455 V...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- Enterococcus
- Enterococcus faecium
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
- Humans
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Molecular Epidemiology
- Population Surveillance
- Prevalence
- Vancomycin