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Outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium clone ST796, Switzerland, December 2017 to April 2018

Published:2018-07-19 Issue:29 Volume:23 Page:
ISSN:1560-7917
Container-title:Eurosurveillance
language:en
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Author:

Wassilew Nasstasja¹,Seth-Smith Helena MB²³,Rolli Eveline¹,Fietze Yvonne¹,Casanova Carlo⁴,Führer Urs⁵,Egli Adrian²³,Marschall Jonas¹,Buetti Niccolò¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2. Applied Microbiology Research, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

3. Division of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

4. Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

5. Infectious Diseases Department, Biel Hospital, Biel, Switzerland

Abstract

A large outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) is affecting four hospitals in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland, since December 2017. Of 89 cases identified as carriers, 77 (86.5%) VRE isolates were virtually indistinguishable using whole genome sequencing, and identified as multilocus sequence type (MLST) ST796. This clone, previously only described in Australia and New Zealand, is characterised by rapid spread and the ability to cause bloodstream infections. It requires a multifaceted infection prevention effort.

Publisher

European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

Subject

Virology,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Epidemiology

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