Characteristic of Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates with quinupristin/dalfopristin resistance in China
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High rate of resistance to quinupristin-dalfopristin in Enterococcus faecium clinical isolates from Korea.
We tested the in vitro susceptibilities of 603 enterococcal isolates from eight tertiary-care hospitals in Korea. The quinupristin-dalfopristin resistance rate in Enterococcus faecium was very high (25 isolates, 10.0%). It was suggested that both clonal spread and the sporadic emergence of quinupristin-dalfopristin-resistant isolates may explain the high prevalence of quinupristin-dalfopristin ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Microbiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1471-2180
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-016-0863-8