Emergence of vanA vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a hospital in Porto Alegre, South Brazil

Introduction: In Porto Alegre (South Brazil), since the first VRE isolation in 2000 until the middle of the last decade, the epidemiology of enterococcal infections presented the peculiarity that, as opposed to other regions of the country, almost all VRE were E. faecalis. The aim of this study was...

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Main Authors: Mariah Resende, Juliana Caierão, Juliana Gil Prates, Gabriel Azambuja Narvaez, Cícero Armídio Gomes Dias, Pedro Alves d'Azevedo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2014-02-01
Series:Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
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Online Access:https://jidc.org/index.php/journal/article/view/4126
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