First vancomycin-resistant blood isolate of Enterococcus faecium in a children's hospital and molecular analysis of the mechanism of resistance

The first clinical isolate of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus spp. in Hacettepe University Children's Hospital was isolated from a blood culture of a patient hospitalized in the intensive care unit. He had been on vancomycin therapy for the last four months for consecutive pneumoniae a...

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Main Authors: Belgin Altun, A Bülent Cengiz, Ateş Kara, Mehmet Ceyhan, Serhat Unal, Gülten Seçmeer, Deniz Gür
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health 2008-12-01
Series:The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
Online Access:https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/2489
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