Evaluation of a vanA-Specific PCR Assay for Detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium during a Hospital Outbreak

We investigated the use of PCR as an alternative to culture of fecal samples for detection of vanA-containing Enterococcus faecium during a recent hospital outbreak. Rectal swabs collected consecutively from 223 patients were analyzed by culture with and without enrichment broth and by vanA-specific...

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Publicado no:	J Clin Microbiol
Principais autores:	Roger, Michel, Faucher, Marie-Claude, Forest, Pierre, St-Antoine, Pierre, Coutlée, François
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	American Society for Microbiology (ASM) 1999
Assuntos:	Bacteriology
Acesso em linha:	https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC85562/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10488203/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttps://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.37.10.3348-3349.1999
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