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Increase of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strain type ST117 CT71 at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2008 to 2018
2020-02-05
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background: </bold>In addition to an overall rise in vancomycin-resistant <italic>Enterococcus faecium</italic> (VREfm), an increase in certain strain types marked by sequence type (ST) and cluster type (CT) has been reported in Germany over the past few years. Outbreak analyses at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin revealed the frequent occurrence of VREfm ST117 CT71 isolates i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 1945f79d-52fe-589e-af31-8b1bb80c943d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.17129/v3
