Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters.

Werner, Guido

Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters. [electronic resource] - International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM Jul 2008 - 515-27 p. digital

Publication Type: Journal Article

1618-0607

10.1016/j.ijmm.2007.05.008 doi


Bacterial Proteins--genetics
Bacterial Typing Techniques
Blotting, Southern
Carbon-Oxygen Ligases--genetics
Cluster Analysis
Cross Infection--microbiology
DNA, Bacterial--genetics
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
Enterococcus faecium--classification
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Genotype
Germany
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections--microbiology
Hospitals
Humans
Minisatellite Repeats
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction--methods
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Vancomycin Resistance--genetics
Virulence Factors--genetics