Clonal Dissemination of Enterococcus faecalis ST201 and Enterococcus faecium CC17-ST64 containing Tn5382-vanB2 among Sixteen Hospitals from Chile

We report the clonal dissemination of ST201 Enterococcus faecalis carrying Tn5382-vanB2 and of CC17-ST64 Enterococcus faecium carrying Tn5382-vanB2-ISEnfa 110 among 16 hospitals in four geographically distant regions in Chile. This is the first epidemiological characterization of vancomycin resistan...

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Autores: López, M. [0000-0002-3834-4891], Hormazábal, J.C., Maldonado, A., Saavedra, G., Baquero, F., Silva, J., Torres, C. [0000-0003-3709-1690], del Campo, R. [0000-0003-1147-7923]
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Rioja (UR)
Repositorio:RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.dialnet.es:doc/5bbc6995b750603269e81ddb
Acceso en línea:https://investigacion.unirioja.es/documentos/5bbc6995b750603269e81ddb
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Clonal dispersion
Conjugation
Enterococcus
Hospital dissemination
MLST
vanB2 resistance
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Sumario:We report the clonal dissemination of ST201 Enterococcus faecalis carrying Tn5382-vanB2 and of CC17-ST64 Enterococcus faecium carrying Tn5382-vanB2-ISEnfa 110 among 16 hospitals in four geographically distant regions in Chile. This is the first epidemiological characterization of vancomycin resistance in Chile, and also the first report of interhospital dissemination of enterococcal vanB2 in South America. © 2009 The Authors Journal compilation © 2009 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

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