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Achilleas Gikas1, Athanasia Christidou, Efstathia Scoulica, Paulos Nikolaidis, Athanasios Skoutelis, Stamatina Levidiotou, Sofia Kartali, Efstratios Maltezos, Simeon Metalidis, John Kioumis, George Haliotis, Sofia Dima, Maria Roumbelaki, Nikoleta Papageorgiou, Evangelos I Kritsotakis, Yannis Tselentis.
Abstract
From 1,246 specimens collected from 13 Greek hospitals, 266 vancomycin-resistant enterococci strains were isolated from 255 patients (20.5%). The VanA phenotype was present in 82 (30.8%) strains, the VanB phenotype in 17 (6.4%) strains, the VanC1 phenotype in 152 (57.1%) strains, and the VanC2/C3 phenotypes in 15 (5.6%) strains. When only VanA and VanB phenotypes were considered, the overall prevalence was 7.5%. Eighty-six isolates exhibiting the VanA or VanB phenotype were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and 46 PFGE groups were found.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16272524 PMCID： PMC1287816 DOI： 10.1128/JCM.43.11.5796-5799.2005
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Microbiol ISSN： 0095-1137 Impact factor: 5.948