Comparison of multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in a setting of polyclonal endemicity of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Open Access
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Clinical Microbiology & Infection
- Vol. 14 (4), 363-369
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01945.x
Abstract
No abstract availableKeywords
This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
- Growth Condition-Dependent Esp Expression by Enterococcus faecium Affects Initial Adherence and Biofilm FormationInfection and Immunity, 2007
- Reduction in Acquisition of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus after Enforcement of Routine Environmental Cleaning MeasuresClinical Infectious Diseases, 2006
- High-Level Ciprofloxacin Resistance from Point Mutations in gyrA and parC Confined to Global Hospital-Adapted Clonal Lineage CC17 of Enterococcus faeciumJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2006
- Global Spread of Vancomycin-resistantEnterococcus faeciumfrom Distinct Nosocomial Genetic ComplexEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2005
- Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis, a Novel Typing Scheme To Study the Genetic Relatedness and Epidemiology of Enterococcus faecium IsolatesJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2004
- A Novel Putative Enterococcal Pathogenicity Island Linked to theespVirulence Gene ofEnterococcus faeciumand Associated with EpidemicityJournal of Bacteriology, 2004
- Comparison of an Automated Ribotyping System to Restriction Endonuclease Analysis and Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Differentiating Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium IsolatesJournal of Clinical Microbiology, 2002
- Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: why are they here, and where do they come from?The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2001
- Variant esp gene as a marker of a distinct genetic lineage of vancomycinresistant Enterococcus faecium spreading in hospitalsThe Lancet, 2001
- Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcal InfectionsNew England Journal of Medicine, 2000