High Prevalence of VanB2 Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium in Taiwan

Thirty-six VanB glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates were collected from patients in five different hospitals in Taiwan. The vancomycin resistance genes were amplified by the long vanB PCR, which amplifies the 6,373-bp vanB gene cluster including the vanR(B2), vanS(B2), vanY(B2), van...

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Main Authors: Lu, Jang-Jih, Perng, Cherng-Lih, Ho, Ming-Fa, Chiueh, Tzong-Shi, Lee, Wei-Hwa
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2001
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Epidemiology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC88102/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11376048
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.39.6.2140-2145.2001
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