Background: MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis) is a reliable typing technique introduced recently to differentiate also isolates of Enterococcus faecium. We used the established VNTR (variable number of tandem repeats) scheme to test its suitability to differentiate 58 E. faecium isolates representing mainly outbreaks and clusters of infections and colonizations among patients from 31 German hospitals. All isolates were vancomycin-resistant (vanA type). Typing results for MLVA are compared with results of macrorestriction analysis in PFGE (pulsed-field gel electrophoresis) and MLST (multi-locus sequence typing). Results: All 51 but one hospital isolates from 1996–2006 were assigned to the clonal complex (CC)...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
(MRSA) is required to study the routes and rates of transmission of this pathogen. Currently availa...
Abstract Background MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis) is a reliable typin...
AbstractIn order to assess whether multiple-locus-variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) coul...
In this study, we present a trilocus sequence typing (TLST) scheme based on intragenic regions of tw...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is an important cause of healthcare-associated inf...
For many years Enterococcus faecium was considered a commensal of the digestive tract, which only sp...
Background: Hospital strains of Enterococcus faecium could be characterized and typed by various mol...
We investigated whether multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) typing could identi...
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) first appeared in the late 1980s in a few European countries....
OBJECTIVES: In Denmark, the incidence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) has incre...
<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "The current MLVA typing scheme for is less discri...
BACKGROUND: The Enterococcus faecium genogroup, referred to as clonal complex 17 (CC17), seems to po...
Enterococcus faecium, a common inhabitant of the human gut, has emerged in the last 2 decades as an ...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
(MRSA) is required to study the routes and rates of transmission of this pathogen. Currently availa...
Abstract Background MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis) is a reliable typin...
AbstractIn order to assess whether multiple-locus-variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) coul...
In this study, we present a trilocus sequence typing (TLST) scheme based on intragenic regions of tw...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) is an important cause of healthcare-associated inf...
For many years Enterococcus faecium was considered a commensal of the digestive tract, which only sp...
Background: Hospital strains of Enterococcus faecium could be characterized and typed by various mol...
We investigated whether multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) typing could identi...
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) first appeared in the late 1980s in a few European countries....
OBJECTIVES: In Denmark, the incidence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) has incre...
<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "The current MLVA typing scheme for is less discri...
BACKGROUND: The Enterococcus faecium genogroup, referred to as clonal complex 17 (CC17), seems to po...
Enterococcus faecium, a common inhabitant of the human gut, has emerged in the last 2 decades as an ...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) has become an important health care-associated patho...
(MRSA) is required to study the routes and rates of transmission of this pathogen. Currently availa...