An epidemiological and molecular study regarding the spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a teaching hospital in Bogotá, Colombia 2016

An epidemiological and molecular study regarding the spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a teaching hospital in Bogotá, Colombia 2016

Abstract Background Enterococcus faecium is ranked worldwide as one of the top ten pathogens identified in healthcare-associated infections (HAI) and is classified as one of the high priority pathogens for research and development of new antibiotics worldwide. Due to molecular biology techniques’ hi...

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Main Authors: Nancy Carolina Corredor, Carolina López, Paula Andrea Aguilera, Lina María Prieto, Giovanni Rodríguez-Leguizamón, Aura Lucía Leal, María Victoria Ovalle-Guerro, Juan Mauricio Pardo-Oviedo, Claudia Elena Chica, Manuel Alfonso Patarroyo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-03-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium
Outbreak surveillance
Antimicrobial resistance
Time–place–sequence algorithm
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-3877-7

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