Epidemiology and molecular typing of VRE bloodstream isolates in an Irish tertiary care hospital | Zendy

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Epidemiology and molecular typing of VRE bloodstream isolates in an Irish tertiary care hospital

Author(s) -

Laura Ryan,

E. O’Mahony,

C. Wrenn,

S.F. FitzGerald,

U. Fox,

Breida Boyle,

Kirsten Schaffer,

Guido Werner,

Ingo Klare

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkv185

Subject(s) - multilocus sequence typing , genotyping , enterococcus faecium , typing , tertiary referral hospital , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , molecular epidemiology , bacteremia , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , biology , genotype , antibiotics , retrospective cohort study , gene , genetics

Ireland has the highest rate of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) isolated from blood of nosocomial patients in Europe, which rose from 33% (110/330) in 2007 to 45% (178/392) in 2012. No other European country had a VREfm rate from blood cultures of >25%. Our aim was to elucidate the reasons for this significantly higher rate in Ireland.

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