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Outbreak of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in a Hospital in Gdańsk, Poland, due to Horizontal Transfer of Different Tn1546-Like Transposon Variants and Clonal Spread of Several Strains

Twenty-two vancomycin-resistant enterococcal (VRE) isolates of the VanA phenotype (21 Enterococcus faecium isolates and 1 E. faecalis isolate), representative of a large outbreak that occurred in a hospital in Gdańsk, Poland, were studied. All of the isolates demonstrated resistance to a wide variet...

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Main Authors: Kawalec, Magdalena, Gniadkowski, Marek, Hryniewicz, Waleria
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2000
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC87380/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10970377
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