Expansion of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium in an Academic Tertiary Hospital in Southwest Germany: a Large-Scale Whole-Genome-Based Outbreak Investigation

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is a frequent cause of nosocomial outbreaks. In the second half of 2015, a sharp increase in the incidence of VREfm was observed at our university medical center. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to analyze the first isolates of VREfm recove...

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Published in:Antimicrob Agents Chemother
Main Authors: Liese, Jan, Schüle, Leonard, Oberhettinger, Philipp, Tschörner, Leonie, Nguyen, Tran, Dörfel, Daniela, Vogel, Wichard, Marschal, Matthias, Autenrieth, Ingo, Willmann, Matthias, Peter, Silke
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Epidemiology and Surveillance
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6496047/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30782988
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01978-18
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