Expansion of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium in an Academic Tertiary Hospital in Southwest Germany: a Large-Scale Whole-Genome-Based Outbreak Investigation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Expansion of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium in an Academic Tertiary Hospital in Southwest Germany: a Large-Scale Whole-Genome-Based Outbreak Investigation

Published:2019-05 Issue:5 Volume:63 Page:
ISSN:0066-4804
Container-title:Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
language:en
Short-container-title:Antimicrob Agents Chemother

Author:

Liese Jan¹²^ORCID,Schüle Leonard¹,Oberhettinger Philipp¹²,Tschörner Leonie¹,Nguyen Tran¹,Dörfel Daniela³⁴,Vogel Wichard³,Marschal Matthias¹²,Autenrieth Ingo¹²,Willmann Matthias¹²,Peter Silke¹²

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

2. German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

3. Medical Center, Department of Hematology, Oncology, Immunology, Rheumatology and Pulmonology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

4. Clinical Collaboration Unit Translational Immunology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), partner site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Abstract

Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is a frequent cause of nosocomial outbreaks. In the second half of 2015, a sharp increase in the incidence of VREfm was observed at our university medical center.

Funder

German Center for Infection Research

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Pharmacology (medical),Pharmacology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AAC.01978-18

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