Detection and Characterization of Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus Isolates in Canada: Results from the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 1995-2006

We describe the epidemiology of heterogeneously resistant Staphylococcus aureus (hVISA) identified in Canadian hospitals between 1995 and 2006. hVISA isolates were confirmed by the population analysis profiling-area under the curve method. Only 25 hVISA isolates (1.3% of all isolates) were detected....

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Main Authors: Adam, Heather J., Louie, Lisa, Watt, Christine, Gravel, Denise, Bryce, Elizabeth, Loeb, Mark, Matlow, Anne, McGeer, Allison, Mulvey, Michael R., Simor, Andrew E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 2010
Subjects:
Susceptibility
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2812162/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19949062
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01316-09
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