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 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health
2008-12-01
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| Series: | The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics |
| Online Access: | https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/2489 |
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