Clustering of Enterococcus faecalis infections in a cardiology hospital neonatal intensive care unit
Early identification of an outbreak is one of the main advantages of routine epidemiological surveillance. Enterococcus spp. used to be regarded as microorganisms of low pathogenicity, because they are part of the normal microbial flora of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tract. Recently, they...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases |
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