Linezolid-resistant Enterococcus (LRE) faecium from blood culture of an adult burns patient: First report of LRE from Mumbai
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Emerging linezolid-resistant, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium from a patient of a haematological unit in Poland.
The oxazolidinone antimicrobial, linezolid, has been approved for the treatment of infections caused by various gram-positive bacteria, including vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). This is the first report on isolation of a linezolid resistant, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (LRVREF) strain in Poland, from a Haematological Unit patient in the Clinical Hospital in Gdańsk. PCR-RFL...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Infectious Diseases
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0974-777X
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777x.192963