Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Outside the Health-Care Setting: Prevalence, Sources, and Public Health Implications
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Vancomycin-resistant enterococci outside the health-care setting: prevalence, sources, and public health implications.
Although nosocomial acquisition and subsequent colonization of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), an emerging international threat to public health, has been emphasized in the United States, colonization among nonhospitalized persons has been infrequently documented. In contrast, in Europe, colonization appears to occur frequently in persons outside the health-care setting. An important fa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid0303.970307