Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of Enterococci recovered from Brazilian intensive care units

Molecular epidemiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of Enterococci recovered from Brazilian intensive care units

We studied the antimicrobial resistance and the molecular epidemiology of 99 enterococcal surveillance isolates from two hospitals of Brasília, Brazil. Conventional biochemical tests were used to identify the enterococcal species and the disk diffusion method was used to determine their resistance p...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Titze-de-Almeida, Maurício Rollo Filho, Celeste A. Nogueira, Isabela P. Rodrigues, João Eudes Filho, Rejane S. do Nascimento, Renato F. Ferreira II, Lídia M. P. Moraes, Hélène Boelens, Alex Van Belkum, Maria Sueli Soares Felipe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Enterococci
antimicrobial resistance
genotyping
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