A Sustained Hospital Outbreak of Vancomycin‐ResistantEnterococcus faeciumBacteremia due to Emergence ofvanB E. faeciumSequence Type 203
The Journal of Infectious Diseases2010Vol. 202(8), pp. 1278–1286
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Paul D. R. Johnson, Susan A. Ballard, Elizabeth A. Grabsch, Timothy P. Stinear, Torsten Seemann, Heather Young, M. Lindsay Grayson, Benjamin P. Howden
Abstract
The application of multilocus sequence typing has uncovered the emergence of an epidemic clone of E. faecium ST203 that appears to have acquired the vanB locus and has caused a sustained outbreak of VRE bacteremia.
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