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Interhospital Transmission of Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus Faecium in Aomori, Japan
2021-09-29
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>A series of vancomycin-resistant <italic>Enterococcus faecium</italic> (VREf) outbreaks caused by clonal propagation due to inter-hospital transmission occurred in six general hospitals in Aomori prefecture, Japan. This was the first multi-jurisdictional outbreak of VREf sequence type 1421 in Japan. It took almost three years for VREf prevalence to return to pre-outbreak levels. The dur...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f7e1125b-5d8d-5b15-9966-1a3ab17c547c
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-929573/v1
