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]
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- 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
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Publication Type: Journal Article
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