Molecular Characterization of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci from Hospitalized Patients and Poultry Products in The Netherlands

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) pose an emerging health risk, but little is known about the precise epidemiology of the genes coding for vancomycin resistance. To determine whether the bacterial flora of consumer poultry serves as a gene reservoir, the level of contamination of poultry produc...

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Main Authors: van den Braak, Nicole, van Belkum, Alex, van Keulen, Marrit, Vliegenthart, John, Verbrugh, Henri A., Endtz, Hubert P.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 1998
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Bacteriology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC104954/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9650938
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