Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters.

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Published in Int J Med Microbiol on October 30, 2007

Authors

Guido Werner1, Ingo Klare, Carola Fleige, Wolfgang Witte

Author Affiliations

1: Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, D-38855 Wernigerode, Germany. wernerg@rki.de

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